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I work in an art gallery in Portugal, and generally you just have to send your portfolio in and with some luck you'll get noticed, either that or you know someone who can get you in the door. It's tough. Other than that, you can rent places to exhibit, but that isn't going to get you noticed generally. The best way really is to persevere and if you ARE good, eventually you'll make it. You should go to a lot of exhibition openings and get to know people, eventually you will become known by the people who matter (collectors who go to openings, gallery owners, etc., it really is a very social game), and meet someone who can help you get into the good galleries.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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