Drawing from Zaratan's "Hammer Time 2025" exhibition-auction, this workshop invites children to dive into the exhibition's atmosphere. The event is an opportunity for them to devise a playful micro-investigation into the value of an artwork.
We start with a visit to the exhibition, for the children to observe and appreciate contemporary artistic production, which includes over 80 works by national and international artists.
Next, the children will move on to the phase of constructing their own artworks, where creativity is the focus.
The workshop culminates in a presentation of the works in the form of a make-believe auction. Families are invited to join in to actively participate in this simulated auction with play money, helping to explore the dynamics of bidding. By pantomiming the auction structure, the aim is to introduce the younger public to another view of the art world, showing how art pieces circulate through galleries and museums.

Biography:
ANA SALOMÉ PAIVA is a visual artist. Resident at the Goela Association. She is interested in poetry and drawing and their various manifestations and relationships with her body as a medium and as a political body. Her works over the last few years focus on a poetic search about the female body, in the form of notebooks, fanzines, self-published books, and engravings. The artist's latest self-published books relate to erotic poetry and motherhood. She has been exhibiting since 2008 in alternative and independent spaces. She is involved in artistic pedagogical projects in various locations throughout the city of Lisbon. Invited artist for the Descola - Escola Nómada project at Eb2/3 Alta do Lumiar with the visual arts activity «O Meu Bairro Imaginário» (My Imaginary Neighborhood) in a classroom context. She has taught Visual Arts in a classroom context at Eb1 St. Maria Maior and in the Bairro Bensaúde, within the scope of the projects: “Bensaúde Vai à Escola” (Bensaúde Goes to School), “Bensaúde é vida” (Bensaúde is Life), “Bairros Que Contam” (Neighborhoods That Tell Stories). Supported by the Bip-Zip Program, Priority Intervention Neighborhoods. She is the author of the visual arts workshop project “Desenhos inconstantes” (Inconstant Drawings) where she develops projects for children, youth, and seniors in various spaces: Goela Association, Penha de França and Marvila libraries, Sines Arts Center. She is a trainer for engraving sessions: alternative processes.

IMAGE ON THE POSTER: “Hammer Time” (2025) © Zaratan

SUPPORT: República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes