What Remains Between: Collaborative Project in Melides including the works of António Faria, Expanded Eye, Susana Cereja and Vanessa Barragão

"The practices gathered here share neither an origin nor a medium, but a sensibility toward what happens in the act of creation: between form and its history, between gesture and the trace it leaves, between the visible and what organizes it from within. Mexico, Brazil and Portugal are not identity categories here, but three latitudes with distinct ways of relating to territory, to the body, and to material memory. Their meeting on the Alentejo coast is the result of an active search for dialogues that go beyond gallery programming to build something closer to a living network.

This exhibition is the second summer exercise in Melides — and with it, the second interval in a constructed series. Each encounter leaves something in the next. What distinguishes this project is not only the selection of artists but the nature of the spaces that host it: Circular, A Moagem and Centro Social do Carvalhal — an architecture and creative atelier, a community center and former rice mill and a cultural space — coexist within a connected exhibition, transcending the conventional typologies of the isolated exhibiting space. The network being built here does not follow an institutional logic but a search for fields of relation between spaces with distinct vocations, where art operates as a connective force."

Graciela Kasep, Curator