Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
Museu do Chiado

Anri Sala’s first exhibition in Portugal takes place in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, as part of Temps d’Image Festival, thanks to a partnership that already brought to the museum exhibitions by Sharon Lockhart (2006), William Kentridge (2005) and Luciana Fina (2004). 

Long Sorrow is a film in which that Anri Sala films Jemeel Moondoc, prominent name of the American free jazz, playing his saxophone suspended from a window in the top of a building in the outskirts of Berlin, improvising a composition built on a growing suspense. The musician is filmed from different angles, offering several viewpoints to the spectator. First from a distance, revealing the urban landscape, always more and more close to him, until nothing more than his face is permitted to see. Long Sorrow is a "requiem for the end of the dreams", both social survey and artistic metaphor. In his films, Anri Sala has been recurring to film and video, experiencing different techniques and formats, to capture the fall of the ideologies, crossing private histories with social researches.  

Anri Sala was born in Tirana, Albania, 1974. He lives and works in Paris and Berlin. He has studied painting, film directing (Le Fresnoy, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing) and video (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris).  

He has participated in major group exhibitions, like the Venice, Berlin, São Paulo and Istanbul Biennials and Manifesta. A selection of his solo exhibitions can include venues like the Dallas Museum of Art (2002), Kunsthalle Wien (2003), Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (2004), Art Institute of Chicago (2004), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam (2005), and many others.