Bardo Loops: Neighbourhood Breakfast & Exhibition Tour

For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Gabriel will present a four-channel video installation portraying the conversations of two animated ghosts: arguing, reconciling and singing laments. Blending wry, ironic humour with overt melodrama, the dialogue combines autobiographical fragments from Gabriel’s own life with broader topics such as climate change and anxieties around a digitally dominated future. Each of the roughly two-minute films in Bardo Loops features spectres caught in limbo, trapped in circular arguments they can never resolve. Gabriel’s dystopian films reflect our contemporary world: despite the multiple catastrophes reverberating around us (political backlash, ecological crisis, the rise of AI technologies) many of us remain blissfully unaware.

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The Lead Supporter for Gabriel Abrantes’ exhibition is Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch). Gasworks’ Exhibitions programme is supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

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