Dentro (Inside) is an installation for the Analytical Chemistry Lab Room of the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, curated by Sofia Marçal.

(…) In the exhibition Dentro it is evident the search for the reconciliation of the human being with nature, an ever more distant reality, that is nonetheless closer in the works of some artists. In the laboratory one can feel the silence of the exhibition. “Silence is the artist’s ultimate other-worldly gesture: by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, consumer, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work.” (Susan Sontag in: Radical Will, The Aesthetics of Silence). The complicity of Daniel and Rita’s artistic creation is easily perceived in the installation, which is realized in different material supports, and where silence is heard. (…)
Sofia Marçal, curator.

(Intervention: Inside)
The artists Daniel Moreira and Rita Castro Neves invited Aida Castro and Maria Mire – an artistic duo as well – to intervene in their exhibition which had been on display since the 6th March at the analytical chemistry lab room of the Natural History and Science National Museum in Lisbon. The challenge draws on conversations, questionings and old aligned thoughts about what an exhibition entails, a critical text and a collective work, aiming at questioning through praxis the expansion of exhibition space possibilities and the possibility of creation within discussion. The art intervention in the exhibition Dentro (Inside), being a moment of creation of a new reality which acts and updates the installation already in progress, is a complex reality that presented itself both as action and reflection. Ephemeral in time – it took place between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Thursday 28th March – this new existence is also co-presence: like one cadavre exquis‘ line.

Aida Castro & Maria Mire are an artistic duo who have debuted in 2017, after an intense cooperation in several researches and other collective works (Colectivo Embankment and Plataforma Ma). The choice of the crossed mode, besides the insistence in any mere optical exercise or in unveiling its tricks, has managed to become a practical methodology: an imposed stereoscopy. The duo postulates the parallax method position in which are considered the distance and the difference of perception between two observing bodies in relation to the same object during the image processing. If it were not double, it would be a hypothetical body in constant movement and acceleration, going from one place to another. They have published “Mácula/INLAND JOURNAL 3” (2018), following an invitation from Eduardo Matos and André Cepeda.