Loops.Expanded 2024-25

LOOPS EXPANDED 2024-2025
INTERNATIONAL DECENTRALIZED EXHIBITION

10.07-07.09.2025
Loops.Expanded 2024-25 in PORTUGAL

The MNAC and Duplacena are proud to present for the 10th year an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.

This edition opens with an immersive video/sound installation Untitled for C, Rising series by Rui Soares Costa and André Gonçalves.
Tide is a perfect loop.
Twice daily the surface of the water rises and falls.
Rui Soares Costa, working in his studio, on the Tejo’s river bank, has been a witness to this looping movement for years.
A frequent sight from the studio’s windows is a boat, suspended by the fishermen over the quay.
In his first video work, we find a transposition of these two sights. An abstraction of a boat, resembling a hammock, is suspended from a metal structure over the surface of the water, letting us witness the tide and ebb to the immersive soundscape of André Gonçalves, that vibrates in a perpetual tidal loop.

A selection from an international open call will follow – 3 videos that are formally and conceptually experimental and poetic – List of burned books in Germany in 1933 by Miquel García Membrado, Ouroboros by Antonio Arango and Scores For Mother & Daughter by Natalia Sardi. The edition ends with a historical video: Eugenio Ampudia’s La Verdad Es Una Excusa.

Loops.Expanded is an international curatorial network for research, curatorship and exhibition. Based on experimenting with a decentralized model, it carries out activities through partnerships developed by Duplacena (Lisbon), PROYECTOR (Madrid), OndaVideo (Pisa) and WWVF (Amsterdam).

Alisson Avila and Irit Batsry