«SUBSTRATO #5» | Pedro Gramaxo
4 Setembro a 21 Setembro
SUBSTRATO #5
Pedro Gramaxo
Pedro Gramaxo
OPEN | 4 September – 21 September 2025
SCHEDULES | Wed-Sun, 16:00-20:00
GUIDED TOUR WITH PSL INTERPRETER | 13 September at 18:00
WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN | 20 September at 10:30
CO-PRODUCTION | Cultivamos Cultura
SUPPORT | República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
SCHEDULES | Wed-Sun, 16:00-20:00
GUIDED TOUR WITH PSL INTERPRETER | 13 September at 18:00
WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN | 20 September at 10:30
CO-PRODUCTION | Cultivamos Cultura
SUPPORT | República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Substrato #5 by Pedro Gramaxo is a geological portrait in a primary format, a soil sample as a symbol of constructive, plastic, and pictorial potentialities, and a search for the veiled gesture.
During his residency at Cultivamos Cultura in São Luís (Odemira), a 1 cubic meter "sample" of clay soil was collected from the village of "Monte da Estrada." It was transformed into pigment and preserved in a double-glass sculpture, a display case, and a memory of substrate as artistic genesis.
During his residency at Cultivamos Cultura in São Luís (Odemira), a 1 cubic meter "sample" of clay soil was collected from the village of "Monte da Estrada." It was transformed into pigment and preserved in a double-glass sculpture, a display case, and a memory of substrate as artistic genesis.
Pedro Gramaxo's installation is the fifth episode of SUBSTRATO, a new exhibition cycle at Zaratan that aims to stimulate artistic productions specifically designed for a particular space within Zaratan, namely the micro-amphitheater located in the gallery's black box.
The exhibition is accompanied by a guided tour (13 September, 18:00) with Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpretation and a workshop for children (20 September, 10:30) with Ana Salomé Paiva.
BIOGRAPHY: Pedro Gramaxo (Lisbon, 1989) is a land-based multidisciplinary artist who works in constructive art, installation, photography, and film, analyzing and deepening our relationship with space, time, memory, and altered states of perception. Channeling his practice into exploring the dualism between the natural and the artificial, this research delves into the distinct capacities of human perception towards Art and nature, expanding the domains of territory identity and consciousness.
His work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, residencies, and public spaces since 2012, from Portugal to Italy, the Netherlands, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, China, Russia, Argentina, South Korea, the United States, Romania, and Iceland. He has been featured in various physical and digital magazines and art platforms worldwide.
He holds a degree in Architecture from Lusíada University of Lisbon (2010) and a Master's in Architecture and Arts (2012), where his academic training intersected between Art and Architecture, developing a research practice in the contexts of "Artistic spaces" and the consequent representation of art, valuing the physical aspects of phenomenology.
His work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, residencies, and public spaces since 2012, from Portugal to Italy, the Netherlands, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, China, Russia, Argentina, South Korea, the United States, Romania, and Iceland. He has been featured in various physical and digital magazines and art platforms worldwide.
He holds a degree in Architecture from Lusíada University of Lisbon (2010) and a Master's in Architecture and Arts (2012), where his academic training intersected between Art and Architecture, developing a research practice in the contexts of "Artistic spaces" and the consequent representation of art, valuing the physical aspects of phenomenology.