BoCA 2023
The fourth edition of BoCA (Biennial of Contemporary Arts) took place in 2023. Lisbon and Faro were the cities hosting a new and effervescent program from 2 September to 15 October.
Between commissions, world and national premieres by both established and emerging artists, performing in their own language or taking risks to create for other registers, BoCA built its 4th edition on the idea of “Invisible Present”.
Always aware of the current times – cultural/artistic, social and political – artistic director John Romão said he ‘wants to give visibility to living things that are not seen, either because of social, political, cultural, economic, legal or technological conditioning, or because we premeditatedly don’t want to recognise the existence of otherness, to validate identities that inhabit the margins’. It is with this desire that the program reflected on issues related to the migrant crisis or gender identity, claiming the physical presence of what is not seen.
BoCA 2023 used two primary colors, gray and yellow, throughout its identity. It used one primary typeface within its permanent, geometric and mutable logo: Neureal by Laura Csocsán (released on ECAL Typefaces) – including for titles and descriptions. LL Replica by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs (released with Lineto) was used for displaying longer texts within the newsprint pamphlet and for smaller information.
