Reif x Lux

REIF, 2023

29/12 - 22:00
LUX FRÁGIL

XEXA
live JOÃO PIMENTA GOMES
live CARMINHO com Pedro Geraldes
VAN DER
NKISI
MADALBA

REIF has always been from here. It was born abroad, formed between Berlin, Paris and São Paulo, but it has also always belonged to Lisbon. An alliance of artists for an ideal of common sharing, an ongoing movement with the purpose of materializing the abstract into the concrete. The agglutinating sphere imagined by the visionaryimpulse of Marcelo Alcaide is translated into the representation of different expressions of identity. Aspractical results, through his homonymous label that explores a vast aesthetic, material and sonic spectrum, compilations were released that made Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Mills, Ron Trent, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, CEM, Carminho, Isabel Lewis, rRoxymore, LABOUR, Karl Holmqvist or CRYSTALLMESS cohabit in the same narrative. Also the residency at Berghain/Panorama Bar, the mecca of freedom and avant-garde cult; programs like 'Sound Catharsis' for Centre D'Art Contemporain Genéve or co-commissioned projects for institutions like Julia Stoschek Collection or HAU Berlin; and recently the release of 'I was born by the sea', the first LP by the thinker and conceptual artist, Richie Culver. When it comes to reflecting on a rallying cry is to think of Lux. A place-embryo that shaped ideas essential to the very foundation of REIF, an ideal place for a first presentation in the city. For the openness and trust in an ongoing relationship like the one between Alcaide and Lux, only a story of non-conformism could be told. A curatorship made of contrasts, bringing artists never imagined in the same line-up, however, of enormous pertinence. A sign that fado, techno, Afrofuturism, gabber and experimental can cross in the form of a unanimous speech. XEXA brings a futuristic and courageous dream, the emerging voice of an artist descendant of São Tomé living in London; the artist João Pimenta Gomes, musician and sound explorer, brings a body-piece to distort the concept of a club; Carminho, fado's greatest soul and incendiary voice joins the guitarist Pedro Geraldes to rethink the canons and open new sound doors; Madalba proves that visceral techno can be elegant, unpredictable and celebratory; Van Der, alias Vanderley Neves, dedicated to unstoppable and corpulent bpms; NKISI, finally, incorporates cerebral, explosive music from gabber to percussive aesthetics that he admires from South African music. On the 29th of December REIF focuses on its materialization and tells a vibrant story mentioning the past, the present and showing where it is heading. It has always been Lisbon, it has always been Lux, REIF is from here and it is here to stay.

Joaquim Quadros