» L - "Cuttings", 2026, magazine page, wax, 20 cm x 26 cm. R - "Folhas", 2026, Indexical drawing on rice paper, wooden frame, light, 70 x 45 x 30 cm
margins, cuttings, leaves - traces & processes
Feb - May 2026
Art & Craft Refúgio, Largo Residencias / Jardins do Bombarda, Lisbon
The exhibition Margins, Cuttings, and Leaves: Traces and Processes stems from an artist residency in collaboration with participants of Art & Craft Refúgio, who were invited to revisit their memories and lived experiences through experimentation with materials, using the garden at Jardins do Bombarda as a starting point. Inspired by processes and methodologies found in nature—including mycelium, understood as a metaphor for connection, transformation, and continuity—the residency approached loss not as disappearance, but as a space for renewal and creation. The traces gathered from the environment became a shared language, giving rise to a collaborative work and a series of individual artist's books, in dialogue with the artist's previous works and with the very creative processes that run through the exhibition. Amidst margins, cuttings, and layers of material, the exhibition reveals itself as a living territory of memory, gesture, and continuous transformation and artistic creation.
ART & CRAFT REFÚGIO is a collective of artists, migrants and people in refugee situations that collaborate in the practice of art and craft. The group comes together weekly to share the collective imaginary and discover new meanings through craft creation and drawing, speaking a common language that is not made of words, but of images and the process of making. Since May 2021, this group of people from various parts of the world have been meeting in Largo Residências, and since 2024, Jardins do Bombarda.
ART & CRAFT REFÚGIO is a collective of artists, migrants and people in refugee situations that collaborate in the practice of art and craft. The group comes together weekly to share the collective imaginary and discover new meanings through craft creation and drawing, speaking a common language that is not made of words, but of images and the process of making. Since May 2021, this group of people from various parts of the world have been meeting in Largo Residências, and since 2024, Jardins do Bombarda.
