CAMADAS Group show

This exhibition emerges in the context of UMA’s creation, assuming this transition as a territory of transformed continuity. More than an ending or a beginning, this is a process of reconfiguration, where the past remains as the essential structure of what is now being built.

CAMADAS (LAYERS) starts from the idea that transformation is the permanent condition of existence. Whether in nature, form, or individuality, change never happens through total replacement but through accumulation, concealment, deterioration, and reconfiguration.

What is visible, as in a palimpsest, is only one of the many dimensions that make up an object, an identity, or a space. Beneath the surface, active traces, memories, and layers of time remain, continuing to operate, albeit invisibly.

The exhibition proposes to think of change as a stratified process, where memory, time, and experience coexist simultaneously. The works presented reveal practices in which construction and erosion occur in parallel, where the invisible sustains the perceptible, and where each gesture adds a new dimension to the present.

Works constructed through accumulation, the exploration of transparencies, and the overlapping of practices engage in a dialogue between different languages, in a white room that abandons the period of latency.

This encounter brings together eight artists residing in Portugal: Constança Duarte, Dylan Silva, Joana Dornellas, Joana R. Sá, Sara Atrouni, Tiago Hesp, Tomás Castro Neves, and Vasco Maio.

The opening will take place on Friday, February 20, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
This show was extended until March 28, and admission is free.

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