EM OBRAS | Final Exhibition

Agunamaise Remi

Filipe Vilas-Boas

Leal Pereira

Maria Couto

Tatyana Cristina

OPEN | 24 October – 2 November 2025 HOURS | Wed-Sun 16:00 – 20:00 

ADMISSION | Free 

SUPPORT | Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes

Zaratan is pleased to present the final exhibition of the fifth edition of the experimental laboratory EM OBRAS, which took place over 13 days and featured the participation of Agunamaise Remi, Filipe Vilas-Boas, Leal Pereira, Maria Couto, and Tatyana Cristina.

Far from traditional teaching methods, the laboratory emphasized practice, improvisation, debate, and collaboration. The discussion of the artworks, their formal qualities, the meaning they create, the surrounding environment, the work of the artist and that of the viewer - all these subjects have educational characteristics and are examples of Zaratan's curatorial approach to training activities. It is not just about organizing the exchange of knowledge, but above all, creating discursive spaces: an open context for the existence of contemporary artistic practice.

The exhibition project is based on the collaborative relationship between all involved: a community in transformation, one that escapes identification practices and generates a dynamic relational map.

After an intense period of collective work with a group of artists / mentors – composed of António Olaio, Daniel Antunes Pinheiro, Gemma Noris, João Fonte Santa, José Chaves, Nuno Direitinho, and Stéphane Blumer – the Zaratan gallery is set up as a stage for participants to share with the public the activities developed during the workshop, where the physical space is filled with transversal, individual, and collective thought and productions.

BIOGRAPHIES:

AGUNAMAISE REMI (b. 1994) is a Mexican-born, self-taught painter based in Burlington, Vermont. Her work explores the fluid and often contradictory nature of self-perception, identity, and memory through a dynamic interplay of abstraction and figuration. Working with an intuitive process, she allows each painting to unfold organically, creating layered compositions that function like personal rituals—spaces where movement, memory, and myth converge. For Remi, painting is a way of navigating the unconscious, giving form to experiences that are remembered, distorted, or concealed.

FILIPE VILAS-BOAS | Portuguese-French conceptual artist Filipe Vilas-Boas (b. 1981, Barcelos; lives in Paris) explores how technology shapes our collective and individual experience. Working across interactive installations, public art, sculpture, and digital performance, he addresses surveillance, AI, ecology, migration, and identity. Humor and irony anchor his critical yet poetic approach, revealing tensions between connectivity and control. Engaging with public space and communities, his works invite reflection on the ethics of algorithms and the politics of data. Exhibitions include Tate, FILE São Paulo, CENTQUATRE, KIKK, DA Z, and MAAT.

LEAL PEREIRA | (b. 1997). In his artistic practice, he develops a dialogue with the materiality of everyday life, rescuing discarded objects that have lost their original function but not their value as matter. Through various technological means, his works explore the relationship between the human being and the material being, reflecting on the dynamics of contemporary society and the impact of our choices. With an approach that oscillates between the industrial and the organic, Leal Pereira transforms waste into visceral compositions, where textures, forms, and contrasts invite introspection. His work presents a renewed look at that which is often overlooked, evoking the memory and transience of materials, while questioning the ephemeral and the permanent in human experience.

MARIA COUTO | (b. 2002) is an artist whose practice unfolds in multimedia and interdisciplinary fields, integrating video, sound, image, sculpture, and installation. She graduated in Visual Arts from ESAD (2024) and gained international experience through the Erasmus program at LUCA School of Arts, in Ghent, Belgium, where she deepened her interest in shared creative processes. Currently, her work focuses on collaboration with other artists and cultural entities, valuing experimentation and the creation of dialogues between contemporary art and social and digital spaces.

TATYANA CRISTINA (Lisbon, 2001) is a visual artist, having graduated with a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon in 2023. She lives and works in Lisbon. Her work unfolds through a multidisciplinary practice, combining different media and experimental processes to explore recurring thoughts and fragments of daily experience. Objects she collects, archival images, and everyday elements emerge as raw material for the creation of fragmented narratives, open to interpretation. Each work is an investigation into identity, memory, and the way the body—physical or symbolic—occupies and transforms space. Through visual and performative strategies, the artist proposes sensitive experiences that challenge the viewer's gaze and invite them into an active dialogue with the work.