This exhibition celebrates 25 years of the Cristina Guerra gallery. It bears witness to the vision of its founder, a gallerist who has played a key role in promoting Portuguese artists abroad and introducing the work of key international artists to the Portuguese art scene. It features work by each of the 26 artists the gallery currently represents.

Its title refers to the profound changes brought by digital culture to the status of images and to the way we comprehend the world, which has occurred over the course of the 25 years that have elapsed since the gallery opened. More specifically, our increasingly fragmented or kaleidoscopic vision of “reality”. It posits the power of art in helping us to “defragment” this vision, proposing a new, much needed coherence.

In the early stages of personal computing, data was randomly stored on hard disks. As a result, images and documents of any kind we not stored as a whole. Defragmenting the disk was therefore a task one had to carry out on a regular basis to improve the performance of a computer. The defrag prompt used to carry out this task serves as an interesting metaphor.