Água Mole em Pedra Dura: Solo show by Eduardo Malé

  • Água Mole em Pedra Dura by Eduardo Malé, and curated by Ricardo Barbosa Vicente is in The Water Museum – EPAL (Barbadinhos Steam Pumping Station) . 
     
    This exhibition brings together sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation, unveiling an ongoing inquiry into water as material, symbolic, and sensorial force.

    Departing from the notion that water reshapes the world through persistence, Malé proposes an understanding of the artistic gesture as a process of attunement, repetition, and displacement. Water traverses the works as substance, metaphor, rhythm, and memory, bringing materials and bodies into proximity and exposing the inherent instability that constitutes us.

    The exhibition path also includes an immersive soundscape featuring recordings of São Tomé rain and the subtle murmurs of the artist’s gestures, deepening an experience that entwines vision, tactility, scent, listening, and imagination.
    Visitors are invited to move through an open cartography in which each line and each form heralds movement.
     
    • Eduardo Malé Água mole em pedra dura, 2025 Galvanized mesh and burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Água mole em pedra dura, 2025
      Galvanized mesh and burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #6, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #6, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #2, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #2, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Corpos Racializados, 2023 Burnt wire and synthetic paint Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Corpos Racializados, 2023
      Burnt wire and synthetic paint
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Território Tangível, 2025 Industrial Cement 120 x 100 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Território Tangível, 2025
      Industrial Cement
      120 x 100 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Necropolítica, 2025 Tap, galvanized mesh, and burnt wire 40 x 120 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Necropolítica, 2025
      Tap, galvanized mesh, and burnt wire
      40 x 120 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Corpo (In)Acessível , 2024 Burnt wire 150 x 60 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Corpo (In)Acessível , 2024
      Burnt wire
      150 x 60 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Racionalização, 2018 Burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Racionalização, 2018
      Burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Corpos Marginalizados, 2019 Burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Corpos Marginalizados, 2019
      Burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Neo-Levitação, 2025 Industrial Cement and wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Neo-Levitação, 2025
      Industrial Cement and wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé, Corpo Descomplexado, 2025
      Eduardo Malé, Corpo Descomplexado, 2025
    • Eduardo Malé Corpo Intransponível, 2025 Interwoven industrial metal strapping 120 x 40 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Corpo Intransponível, 2025
      Interwoven industrial metal strapping
      120 x 40 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Corpo Complexado, 2025 Interwoven industrial metal strapping, recycled paper, and Michelin maps 200 x 100 cm 200 x 100 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Corpo Complexado, 2025
      Interwoven industrial metal strapping, recycled paper, and Michelin maps 200 x 100 cm
      200 x 100 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #3, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #3, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #4, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #4, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Aguaceiros, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 154 x 197 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Aguaceiros, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      154 x 197 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Banho-Maria, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 182 x 190 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Banho-Maria, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      182 x 190 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Trolhas de Lisboa e o Medo de Pisar Ovos, 2022 Industrial Cement Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Trolhas de Lisboa e o Medo de Pisar Ovos, 2022
      Industrial Cement
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #5, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #5, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé A Mestiça, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 133 x 167 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      A Mestiça, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      133 x 167 cm
    • Eduardo Malé Chuva Feminina, 2025 Galvanized mesh and burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      Chuva Feminina, 2025
      Galvanized mesh and burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé Terra Prometida #1, 2025 Acrylic on Michelin maps 40 x 50 cm
      Eduardo Malé
      Terra Prometida #1, 2025
      Acrylic on Michelin maps
      40 x 50 cm
    • Eduardo Malé #Abelhas, 2025 Burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      #Abelhas, 2025
      Burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
    • Eduardo Malé #Lagartos, 2025 Burnt wire Variable Dimensions
      Eduardo Malé
      #Lagartos, 2025
      Burnt wire
      Variable Dimensions
  • “Thus, too, operates Eduardo Malé—through repetition, through attentive listening, and through the gesture that, in persisting, shifts the world. (…) Visitors find themselves within a terrain where looking, touching, smelling, hearing, and imagining become inseparable acts, enveloped by the dense sound of São Tomé rain and by the murmuring of gestures that traverse the space.”
  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Eduardo Malé was born in the district of Água Grande, in São Tomé and Príncipe. He began his artistic path...
    Eduardo Malé was born in the district of Água Grande, in São Tomé and Príncipe. He began his artistic path in the mid-1990s as a self-taught artist, exploring the universe of visual expression and experimenting with various disciplines. His artistic training, undertaken in Lisbon and Caldas da Rainha (Portugal), provided him with a solid technical and conceptual foundation that would support the creation of distinctive works of painting and sculpture, offering a personal perspective on contemporary society over recent decades.
     
    His practice also extended into the field of animation cinema, most notably through the creation of the project “Cinemação” — a series of television adverts on the theme of HIV/AIDS — developed in partnership with the National Programme for the Fight against AIDS, the School of Art and Design in Caldas da Rainha, RTP Africa, and UNICEF.
     
    Malé returned to Africa in 2009. Acknowledging the urgent need for cultural intervention in his country, he has since taken on the roles of mentor, producer, and promoter of several artistic and cultural initiatives.