PT ENG Descrição da Obra Artwork Description The Post-Babel Tower (A Torre Pós-Babel) inverte a Torre de Babel canónica — uma história bíblica de confusão linguística e fragmentação cultural —, propondo, em vez disso, um laboratório para a consciência, a reparação e a reconexão. A obra convida os espectadores a entrar numa espiral temporal e…
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Terroir — Amy Pilling
Artwork Description ENG// Terroir During quiet walks around São Luís, I enjoyed the sensory experience unfolding around me: the calls of birds, the scent of foliage and wet soil, the texture of cork bark and leaves, and other perceptions native to my own way of sensing the world. Yet I found myself wondering what I…
Projeto Parietaria — Dalila Honorato
Artwork Description ENG// Project Parietaria engages with the legacy of art in a suitcase [Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise(1948), Dieter Roth’s Staple Cheese(A Race)(1970), Mona Hatoum’s Traffic(2002), etc.] repurposing a vintage Lady Baltimore makeup suitcase into an unconventional picnic basket filled with culinary preparations of an edible yet allergenic weed. Much like Joseph Cornell’s assemblage art, which…
Vessel #1 — Jeffu Warmouth
Artwork Description ENG// The eucalyptus leaves collected have become self-referenced text containers and are arranged as longitudinal slices of a larger form. The poetic texts praise the function and concepts of containers in biology, art and culture. PT// As folhas de eucalipto apanhadas tornaram-se contentores de texto autorreferenciados e são organizadas como fatias longitudinais de…
Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) — Louise Mackenzie
Artwork Description ENG// Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) Cork wood, kombucha, copper wire, speakers, microphones, amplifiers and cables. Whilst on residency in Sao Luis, I was reflecting on how to make a sculpture that allowed people to sit and listen – closely and carefully – to the sounds around them in these beautiful…
Borderless Bacteria, Colonialist Cash — Ken Rinaldo
Artwork Description ENG// Scientists have identified up to 3000 types of bacteria on dollar bills from just one Manhattan bank. Most of the bacteria found were skin, mouth and vagina microbes according to a study conducted by New York University Center for Genomics & Systems Biology. Bacterial cultures, fungi, and viruses finding transport on monetary…
CODEX | Phase I: Library of transcriptions and speculative translations in bark beetles — Eileen Ryan
Artwork Description ENG// This project will include several phases that focus on the transcription and interpretation of beetle galleries (unique patterns beetles make underneath the bark of trees) into a pictorial language. My hypothesis is that I will uncover patterns that will lead me closer to a potential awareness of inter-species communication. The speculative translations…
Folded Light: Study N.1 — Rudolfo Quintas
Artwork Description ENG// A visual study of animated circles projected onto a bending sheet of paper, where light follows the geometry of deformation. This piece is an outcome of a residency by Rudolfo Quintas. He was investigating how the perception of our body is culturally changing through medical information. He explored the idea of a…
Bumblebee Ecosystem — Yuko Oda
Artwork Description ENG// Japanese mineral pigments, sumi, and graphite on paper, 2025 My proposal at Cultivamos Culturas was to draw the insects and plants around the premises, dead and alive—to observe nature everyday. Some days it reached over 100 degrees. The sun made everything bright, and the skies were cloudless. My first drawing was of…
The Barn — Ana Baleia
Artwork Description ENG// In her artistic practice, Ana Baleia works essentially with textile waste, seeking to rescue not only the material, but also that which is immaterial. Starting from this idea and relating it to her interest in religious records and reliquaries, throughout the ‘Credo’ artistic residency at Cultivamos Cultura she has developed works that…
Cultivamos Cultura Sensory Garden — Crystal Kershaw
Artwork Description ENG// The sensory garden at Cultivamos Cultura is the outcome of a three month residency during which the artist transitioned the area – containing and repurposing a previous artist’s work (a compost pile) – into a newly grown green space, intended as an interactive haven, offering myriad sensorial stimuli. The work explores themes…