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Mario Henrique

Mario Henrique’s work merges portraiture with poetic expression. Blending traditional techniques with contemporary elements, he creates raw, emotionally charged pieces that explore human vulnerability and resilience.

João Marques

João Marques explores "Terra" (earth/soil) through painting, drawing, and installation. Inspired by Arte Povera, he works with materials like scorched earth and charcoal, highlighting cycles of destruction and renewal. His art challenges viewers to look downward—to the land beneath us—as a source of creation, transformation, and meaning.

Thierry Ferreira

Thierry Ferreira’s sculptural practice explores the tension between structure and fluidity, permanence and impermanence. Blending sculpture, drawing, and photography, his work evokes primal architectures and forgotten spaces, where materials become vessels of memory. His sculptures and images reframe the built environment, revealing space as something not just occupied, but imagined, remembered, and felt.

Tatyana Cristina

Tatyana Cristina’s abstract mixed-media paintings blend spontaneity with precision, shaping surreal and ironic visual narratives. Drawing from memory, personal fascinations, and everyday encounters, she constructs layered compositions where chaos and order intertwine. Her work explores identity, emotion, and the tension between intuition and control, inviting viewers into a world both intimate and enigmatic.

Unknownezqui

Unknownezqui (Rúben Barros) is a digital artist who transforms everyday moments into abstract visual narratives. Using photography as a foundation, he layers textures, distorts forms, and refines colors to reshape perception. His evolving practice, now incorporating hand-drawn elements, blurs the line between memory, emotion, and experimentation.

Francisco Figueiredo Lopes

Francisco Figueiredo Lopes is a sculptor exploring the tensions between creation and destruction. His work investigates cycles of extraction, transformation, and consumption, merging industrial techniques with manual interventions. Through sculpture and installation, he challenges the structures of power, violence, and excess, reshaping materials to question their histories and functions.

Miguel Basto

Miguel Basto is a visual artist who works with a wide variety of materials. His artistic work is driven by a desire to explore themes such as the urban environment, the dynamic relationship between the human body and space and studies on composition and movement. By reusing urban waste and found objects, he incorporates their inherent meanings, assembling and creating a visual narratives.