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Exhibition | ECO: ONDA SONORA

18th September to 20th December 2025

Curated by José Carneiro

The exhibition ECO: SONIC WAVE opened its doors on 18 September at 18:00 at the Exhibition Pavilion of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). The opening session began with the performance SYRINX, by Inês Tartaruga Água, an alumna of FBAUP, marking the start of the public programme accompanying the exhibition. From 20:00, the experience continued at FIASCO, with a DJ set by José Carneiro, the exhibition’s curator, extending the sonic atmosphere of the inauguration in an engaging and dynamic way.

Report with the exhibition curator José Carneiro 

The exhibition ECO: ONDA SONORA explores the resonance between music, visual arts and graphic design, taking the vinyl record as its starting point. An object that is both a sound medium and a visual surface: it fixes and preserves music and reproduces graphic material that adds meaning to the listening experience. This curatorial project stems from the recent incorporation of several dozen Portuguese records into the collection of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, including José Afonso - Cantigas de Maio (1971); GNR - Os Homens Não Se Querem Bonitos (1985); HHY & The Macumbas - Beheaded Totem (2018) and Tropa Macaca - Animais Sintéticos (2022).

The exhibition will feature pieces conceived as a composite medium and which are at the origin of a unique artistic territory: records created as artistic pieces, covers that reproduce pre-existing paintings or photographs, records that result in sculptures and installations, graphic proposals born of close relationships between musicians and graphic designers.

ECO: ONDA SONORA brings together around fifty Portuguese artists from different fields and spanning several generations — from the 1980s, with the partnership between António Palolo and Telectu, to 2025, with the joint work of Carlos Lobo, Fabrizio Matos and Francelino Gomes for EVOLS. The exhibition also includes a listening point that allows the public to hear a selection of records from labels such as Ama Romanta, Wasser Bassin, Favela Discos or Príncipe, expanding the boundaries between what is seen and what is heard.

It can be visited from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2 pm to 6 pm, at the Faculty’s Exhibition Pavilion. Admission is free.