SABAPRODAKTION | «Cardboard Noise»

7 Março a 2 Maio

SABAPRODAKTION
Cardboard Noise

March 7 – May 2, 2026

HOURS | Wed-Sun, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
GUIDED TOUR WITH LGP INTERPRETER | March 21 at 6:30 PM (Portuguese Sign Language)
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP | March 29 at 10:30 AM (with Ana Salomé Paiva)

Zaratan presents «Cardboard Noise», a site-specific solo exhibition by SABAPRODAKTION, which fully transfigures the gallery space by covering it with cardboard printed with its own texture, creating a feedback loop between the tactile and the visual. In this intervention, cardboard—an omnipresent element in global logistics and economy—is investigated and transformed into a medium of resistance and critical subversion. Clearly rooted in D.I.Y. culture and noise aesthetics, the project functions as a collective subject that merges totemic abstraction with industrial repurposing. Through experimental pictorial processes, this utilitarian material is elevated to a new visual dimension, challenging our perception of space and matter.

BIOGRAPHY: SABAPRODAKTION is a visual project active since 2006, which aims to blur the boundaries between the individual and the collective, functioning as an undefined subject in action/production. Its first output was a D.I.Y. comic fanzine called MEKONG, launched in Bologna (IT) and distributed directly on the streets and through underground networks. It was published (ir)regularly until 2010, from issue #00 to #07. Since then, the project has developed in multiple directions. Serial construction pieces and industrial scraps, spray-painted rather than used as stencils, were installed—and abandoned—in the urban landscape as extemporaneous city installations; the filmed process and photographic documentation became the material shared online and printed in other fanzines ("Situazioni urbane"). An original style of totemic abstract painting was developed, spread across the walls of social centers, clubs, record stores, and performance venues, as well as public spaces, also serving as material for experimental video production. The "hairy bone"—the project's extreme visual synthesis—also began to spread through flyers, clothing, and the urban landscape across Europe. Close collaboration with the London-based collective Workin'Klass Noize since 2011 led to a deeper exploration of post-industrial/noise aesthetics, resulting in new serial works—Ikea collages, "analoglitches," and the cardboard printing technique—which have been featured in various fanzines and video experiments, the latter being his main ongoing visual investigation.

SUPPORT | Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea is an entity supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes