V I O L E N T H E M A T I T E P O E T I C S (2025)
INSTALLATION
STAINLESS STEEL, HEMATITE ON RECYCLED CANVAS, HEMATITE POWDER, HEMATITE CLAY CENSER, MYRRH INCENSE, TEXT
Violent Hematite Poetics (2025) comes from an excavation of rhymes and enchantments that are part of a collective imaginary process through our past, present, and future relationships with landscape and desire.
Holding fire and producing smoke in its core as it burns a myrrh incense, it is an in-between state of earthly a(scent)ion and violent de(scent).
Processual Tarot spread:
V, VI and VII of Wands
Hematite on recycled canvas, hematite powder, stainless steel, hematite clay censer, myrrh incense
P E N D U R I C A L H O S (2025 - present)
P E N D U R I C A L H O S (2025 - present)
INSTALLATION SERIES
STAINLESS STEEL, CANDLES, ROCKS
From the desire to translate the relationship of affective and ritualistic objects of my daily routine into space, Penduricalhos makes a reference to the Portuguese word “pendants”, a signature element from my jewellery creations.
This installation invites us to deepen our intimate relationship with matter and the silver threads around us, an archaeology suspended in space as altar.
Processual Tarot spread:
III of Cups
Stainless steel, corsican rocks, candles
E M B A L M E (2025)
INSTALLATION, 2025
BEESWAX, ROSE TORNS, ROSE OVARIES, HRT SERINGES, TAROT CARDS, STAINLESS STEEL, PEARLS, LILLIES...
Embalme (2025) is an installation where beeswax functions as the main connector between subjective fragments scattered in the room.
This golden substance becomes enchanting medium, integrating death within life by transforming decomposing flowers and their dissected parts — ovaries of white roses, stems, thorns — into relics that are not frozen in time, but transfigured into a new alchemical process together with HRT seringes that penetrate the walls.
''Rego um bálsamo que cristaliza lírios
pintando pétalas, encobertas de ritos
Semeio um cálice com pepitas de cera:
sementes amareladas escorrendo seiva por seis beiras.
Tempo dourado,
temperado em receita banho-maria,
saliva de abelha transmutada em alquimia.
Veias cobertas de prosas finas,
ainda vivas,
na pele que ha pouco florescia.
Fervor.
delicadeza que borbulha.
odor que se mistura,
perfuma...
Vida que arde, se acaba,
e ainda continua.''
N E P T U N A L I A (2025)
Ritual-Performance recording during Neptunalia, a date where Neptune, paganic deity of waters associated with Pisces, is celebrated in request for protection.
Using my disassembled loom in 4 parts, I placed each stack in between rocks as a base for a drawing and overlap within the amulet of Neptune’s symbol in itself in the exact coordinates where my Neptunian line crosses my natal Astrocartography chart. The emerged space turned into a devouring portal of manifestation and gratification towards nept-oceanic energy.
Astrocartography is the astrological guidance through land, weaving together carnal and immaterial constelations. It is a modern astrology practice that interpretes the geographical projections of each planet in a specific moment, showing where each planet has their highest intensity on Earth. Like bridges that connects us to their atmospheres.
Neptune represents the universal ocean of oneness with all beings, related to the Cups suit in the Tarot and Pisces astrological sign. Neptune is highly compassionate, idealistic, and imaginative. It is the planet of inspiration, dreams, and psychic receptivity. Neptune rules spirituality, and all things subtle.
"I feel you passing by — through crystal waters and purple pines…
Yet orbiting so distant, in unreachable sight.
Somewhere, a mountain carries the weight of a heart,
And I refuse it to be mine.
Notice how grasping into rocks can decompress empty hands?
A libido that sparkles for warm, golden grains of sand?
So I keep longing for the kiss of lukewarm springs,
Intimate silence plunging throats as deep as the sea…
As a portal of fire twilights,
Introducing ever-changing moonlights.
Fill me with riddles,
And I will muzzle words.
Inside fountain baths, saliva soaks over endless notes —
They simmer incenses of you,
Rosemary lust that shapes what is true."
I I I A L T A R E S
I I I A L T U R A S (2025)
3 different levels indicate an ephemeral path of Venusian vertical conexions made as 3 altars that enchants space and visitors through the heart core of a building marked by a complex and dense history of violences and healing practices.
The instalation is a journey through a contemplative vortex using archetypical objects from our longtime and recent ancestry in contrast to contemporary objects and insights as a ritualistic bridge that communicates towards the in-between. At every turning point of the stairs, elements are transforming gradually in the ascension of a narrative.
The video performances recorded through it consists of activations of the different spaces and uses the Tarot as a tool to translate the inspirations through this journey, marked by conflicts between advances and pull-backs.
O P E R A (2025)
This project was a collaboration with opera singer Virginie, who invited me to do an installation as set design for her play at the Performing Arts Forum in December 2025.