To mark the last day of the exhibition Reluctant Gardener, we invite you to the launch of the publication that brings together contributions from artists Álvaro Urbano, Ariel Schlesinger, Nina Canell and Rei Naito, and authors Alhena Katsof, Elise Lammer and Michael Marder.

The event will take place in the garden at the back of the gallery Fidelidade Arte, and the conversation will be joined by Sofia Lemos, curator of the exhibition and editor of the book, Sofia Gonçalves, designer of the cycle Territory, which this exhibition closes, and author of the publication's graphic design, and Bruno Marchand, visual arts programmer at Culturgest.

The talk will be followed by the performance Animacy or a Breath Manifest, in which Mexican artist Vica Pacheco creates sonic environments that intertwine animism, ritual, and technology, blending experimental music with sounds rooted in mythological hybridity and pre-Hispanic technologies. Drawing on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican whistling vessels—ceramic instruments activated by air and water—the artist crafts hydraulic sculptures that form a wind chorus. Breath becomes a medium for reimagining the links between body, territory, and collective memory, opening a syncretic space where sound, materiality, and spirituality converge, and the line between the animate and inanimate dissolves.

Programme

7:00pm Book launch Reluctant Gardener
7:3pm Performance Animacy or a Breath Manifest by Vica Pacheco