04/09/2026
Mono is happy to invite you to the first edition of Pata na Poça, presenting the works of Mariana Lourenço, Inês Oliveira, Micaela Duarte, Bernardo Infante, Fernando Pimenta, Margarida Leal, Richad Selemane, Maria Peixoto Martins, Axelle Camille, Amanda Triano, Bruno Mesquita
Opening on Friday, 11th of September, 6pm to 10pm
Pata na Poça is the first edition of an exhibition bringing together the works of eleven selected young artists. The project places different practices, languages and sensibilities in dialogue, allowing the works to create, without a predetermined narrative, different possibilities for interpretation.
The artists share a particular attention to conditions of transition: from presence to absence, from memory to transformation, from the individual to the other. Rather than a common theme, these are tensions that recur through bodies, images, words and materials.
One of the threads running through the project is translation: moving something from one form to another, from one language to another, while accepting that something may shift, disappear or remain irreducible. Communication makes encounter possible, yet also brings misunderstanding; an image can preserve a presence while simultaneously proclaiming its absence.
It is within this distance that vulnerability emerges. To be vulnerable is to be afflicted by a vulnus, a wound that unsettles the notion of a strong, autonomous and sovereign subject. It is a condition we cannot escape, exposing the limits of the self and its relation to what lies beyond it.
Pata na Poça does not aim to construct a single narrative, but to bring together works that remain autonomous, allowing connections and resonances to emerge between them.
text by Chiara Bello
