um proposição têxtil entre o tempo e o espaço
a textile proposition between time and space
07.06.2025 - 10.08.2025 - atelier b12, lisbon - portugal
Solo exhibition by Rafaela Salgueiro with an activation by Julia Ribeiro
In Rafaela Salgueiro’s practice, textile is no longer a noun — it becomes a verb: to stitch, to activate, to question, to care. Her sculptural works — amorphous, expansive, fluid, and sometimes unsettling — resist fixed definitions. They do not invite passive contemplation, but rather demand engagement. To touch, to wear, to respond.
Textile here is not just material: it is language, gesture, and political proposition. Salgueiro constructs forms that exist beyond categories of function or gender, inviting the viewer to participate — not merely observe. Her works, often monumental in scale, dwarf the human body, provoking a shift in perspective and challenging hierarchies between object and subject, art and audience.
This exhibition unfolds as a space of shared activation, where touch and interaction are key. It is rooted in feminist and collective thinking, proposing a sensorial language for resistance and connection.
As part of the exhibition’s closing event, at the finissage, artist Julia Ribeiro leads a fermentation workshop inspired by Fermenting Feminism and the vegetal philosophy of Emanuele Coccia — a shared practice of embodied, collective transformation, using tucupi — a fermented Amazonian ingredient — as a starting point for a conversation around food, care, and transformation. Ribeiro, like Salgueiro, centers the body and collaboration in her practice, using cooking as a tool for feminist fermentation and radical collectivity.
Both artists approach the body and the senses as tools for transformation. Salgueiro works through textiles; Ribeiro through food. In both, the spectator becomes an active participant, engaging not only visually, but through smell, touch, and taste. These are works that invite us to relate — to art, to each other, and to the world — through shared processes of making and becoming.
In ‘A textile proposition between time and space’, art is not something to be admired from a distance. It is something to be lived, felt, transformed — a soft and powerful space where the political becomes palpable, and the collective becomes possible.
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