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Exhibitions / Festivals 2025:
30 Oct 2025 - 29 Dec 2025
Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Collective exhibition with Izumi Ueda Yuu, Luis Almeida, and D. Dominick Lombardi.
“The online Oxford Dictionary defines pretending in this way: 'speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.” Most of us can still remember playing as a child, dressing, behaving, and claiming to be something we are not. Some of those pretend characters are the classic princess, an adventurous astronaut, a ballet dancer, a sneaky spy, or simply a person who operates a car, boat, train, or plane. What is common with artists is that childhood pretend play often occurred with aspects of drawing or painting, as that imagined world was funneled through the images created by the pretenders.
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Run Jiang’s art is a perfect blend of being and pretending. Jiang’s more colorful works focus on the waking dream state, when one’s thoughts are completely unrelated to one’s physical place. In this instance, Jiang puts forth her own unique way of portraying the multi-planar reality theory, whereby previously unseen worlds collide. In her black and white ink drawings, which she notes as a Dream series, Jiang brings together lifelong experiences, both real and imagined, into a precious series of vignettes and vistas that can at one moment seem bucolic and the next imperiling......”
29 May 2025 - 01 Jun 2025
Curated by Constança Pupo Cardoso
Collective exhibition with André Almeida e Sousa, Angela Dias, Filipe Romão, Fernando Mesquita, João Fitas, João Marcelino, José Batista Marques, Luis Silveirinha, Luis Almeida, Martîm, Miguel Angelo Marques, Raquel Mendes, Maria José Cabral, Paula López-Bravo, Cristiano Mangovo, Tiago Evangelista, Martim Paaskesen, Gabriele Herzog, Nevro, Leonor Saunders.
Active coexistence, from door to door, through the street.
“‘Half-walls’ (Paredes-meias) —the common walls of adjacent buildings—emerge as a means of maintaining proximity between several "neighboring" commercial spaces on Rua das Fontainhas in the parish of Alcântara, Lisbon. In a coexistence of trades that allows for the mediation of the encounters and disagreements of its agents in the urban space, the gallery space expands through a site-specific experience in places that open up as "exhibitions." The intersection of everyday life with art and its arteries thus invests in favor of a place.”