Against the backdrop of Lisbon’s brilliant blue skies and the distant shimmer of the Atlantic, Francisco Figueiredo Lopes’ Make it burn then hold seems almost alive—straining, grasping, resisting. It is a sculpture that speaks in extremes: of creation and destruction, of accumulation and exhaustion, of the raw forces—both human and material—that shape our world. Here, steel becomes a language, tension a narrative, and a monumental form transforms into a meditation on existence itself.
