“Purposefully designed for the Mirandela Railway Station, this exhibition presents a set of works by Carla Filipe (Aveiro, 1973) integrated into the Serralves Collection, in dialogue with historical documents from the Station Documental Fund, selected by the artist and exhibited for the first time in this context.

Born in a house in CP, Carla Filipe grew up near Entroncamento in a period of great social and political mobilization. He has been based in Porto since the 2000s but develops his work mainly in progress: traveling the country by train and the city on foot; collecting fragments and stories; facing the street as a studio and the journey as a floating experience between amazement and disappointment.

With the house on your back translates the nomadic nature of the artist’s work in different ways, bringing together works related to this theme conceived at different times and places, between 2010 and 2021, in national territory and within homes artistic activities abroad, namely in London and Antwerp. On the other hand, by being part of the Serralves Collection’s Itinerant Exhibition Program, With the house on your back is, effectively, on a journey, adapting to the different spaces that will welcome it along its journey through the country.

Between the drawing and the word, the fragment and the book, experience and memory, Carla Filipe’s practice transforms this station-house into house-museum, a place in movement, open to new meanings and demands, where history is never simple, unique or linear.

This exhibition, curated by Joana Valsassina, is part of the Serralves Collection’s Itinerant Exhibitions Program, which aims to make the Foundation’s collection accessible to diverse audiences from all regions of the country.”