This project for the Lisboa City Hall was designed to revive and archive of letters that were sent since the XV century from several places in Lisbon. Each letter was addresses from a specific place near a train station where the illustrations were shown.
Pauline Frossel, curator at the Underdogs Gallery was very kind on offering a solo show. I had just returned to Portugal and this opportunity to try new things and formats were bliss. I decided to mix, poetry, comic narrative, architecture and the human body. All the paintings are spray on canvas.
This intervention was made in collaboration with the almighty Pepes Studio and Bragapark. The idea was create a walk through museum of urban art in a mall, so costumers could interact with the pieces as they went about their daily lives. I got a big staircase to draw on and my idea was to bring nature to the interior and to create a parallel between a walk in a park and climbing up and down the stairs.
This piece was made in collaboration with Mistaker Maker for their Urban Art Festival, ESTAU. It is a 360 piece around an old fisherman hunting house and tells the story of the metamorphosis of a boy into the elements and animals that inhabit the body of water that sometimes submerges it.
These are murals that I+ve made over the years with household names like the Underdogs Gallery, Mistaker Maker and Circus Network.
This project was a collaboration with the Pepes Studio in my hometown Aveiro. It had a particularly pleasant twist as I had to work on an imaginarium that accompanied me since I was a child, walking around my city. From my memories of Aveiro, I cherish the swirl of the wind, the colours of the sky and the river the open space and two enigmatic figures on the bridge; the varina and the marnoto. Enigmatic because they represent a life that I don't know, I can only fantasize about. I think it must have been a hard, rough and restless life. However, dark, surrounded by water, softness and infinite shades of grey-blue-green that bring me an electric peace.
This wall is painted on the side of a theatre building and the dance company that is currently occupying the space is very experimental. At some point in the conversation someone joked about the ideas that dancing is like a controlled fall and that became the tone to the piece.
