Odd Objects: an essay on proto-sculpture aimed to bring together a wide range of works from the local region’s religious, popular and archaeological heritage, and forged a dialogue with works by contemporary artists. In 2012, as part of the Beyond History exhibition, which inaugurated José de Guimarães International Arts Centre, we created a small unit, that we called Odd Objects: and essay in proto-sculpture. It had an ironic and mysteriously literary title and combined a group of objects from various sources, that maintained a problematic relationship with the concept of sculpture: either because they had no clear shape, or because they were composed of small scattered fragments, without a unified body, or because they constituted the rever image, the mould, of recognisable forms (…).

Nuno Faria