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Exhibition | 'Topografias do ar'

Cecília Lima, Inês Mendes T. and Teresa Bastos

Opening and guided tour: 20th June 2025, at 6pm
Visits until 27th June 2025, at Fisga Warehouse

English Air Topographies brings together the work of three students from the Master's in Fine Arts, Sculpture branch, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, resulting from a theoretical-practical investigation developed throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. The exhibition emerges from the intersection of three processes that converge in the relationship between body, landscape, and remnants, through the act of being present, deconstruction, and attention to the details and latent manifestations that arise from the interaction with the space. In this context, sculpture is defined by the sensitive inscription of the transient. Through the collection of objects and materials, mapping, and observation of the rhythms of the environment, each artist unfolds their intimate experience of these encounters, materializing, in objects, videos, and sculptural compositions, the relationship between the space and the remnants that persist and reconfigure within it. The remnants are established as the central element of the exhibition, functioning simultaneously as a testimony to the action and as sculptural material. The remnants left by movement—whether physical, sound, or symbolic—emerge as testimonies of a fluid territory, situated between materiality and the subjective dimension of the encounter with the sea, the cosmos, the forest, and the stillness of the observer. Through an exercise of slowing down and attention, Air Topographies proposes a shift in perspective and perception, encouraging the encounter between different practices, bodies, and processes that converge with the same purpose: to root a presence in the here and now, in continuous transformation.

Organised by Master in Fine Arts – Sculpture [FBAUP]

BIO

Cecília Lima, Brazilian, born in 1997, is a visual artist who lives and works in Porto, Portugal. In her practice, daily displacements are the guiding thread of her experiments in media such as sculpture, sound art, video, among others. Her investigations stem from the collection of objects and images found along her paths and their intersection with concepts from the natural sciences, where the scale between the ordinary and the sidereal is constantly rearranged in space. The artist holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Brasília – UnB, Brazil, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in Portugal. She has been exhibiting regularly since 2017 in Brazil and other countries. In 2019, she held her first solo exhibition at Espronceda Art and Culture Gallery, in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, she was nominated for the 11th edition of the PIPA Prize.

Inês Mendes T. (b. 2001, Vila Nova de Famalicão) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design of Caldas da Rainha and is currently completing an MA in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Since 2022, exhibitions have taken place in Caldas da Rainha, Guimarães and Porto. Operating on the edge of the real and the imagined, the practice engages space and its elements as sensitive material in constant dialogue. Between the concrete and reverie, the work proposes a reflection on coexistence and interdependence, emphasizing traces, gestures, and dualities: the movement from the exterior to the intimate, the shifts from presence to absence, the transformation from the tangible to the evocation.

Teresa Bastos was born in 2002 in Vila Real, where she graduated in Visual Arts from the Camilo Castelo Branco Secondary School (2020). In the same year, she enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, completing her degree in Fine Arts - Sculpture in 2024. She is currently studying for a Master's Degree in Fine Arts at the same Faculty, continuing to deepen her artistic practice as a way of taking a break from contemporary ways of being. Articulating areas such as sculpture, performance, painting, drawing and photography, she has held group exhibitions and public interventions in Vila Real, Porto and Guimarães, the cities that host her artistic practice.