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The collector’s house shows no traces of a domestic life, but it is inhabited by the artworks that she has been gathering throughout the years. It is an open space, for socializing, but it is also intimate, even secret. Could we find out what is behind the choice of these works? What do they say of their collector? Could we also find ourselves in the stories they tell and the connections they establish?

In Carla Filipe’s ‘collector’s house’, the first thing to become apparent are the artist’s gestures and experiences as they manifest in her reflections, confessions and questionings inscribed …