Are We What We Behold – Postscript

Are We What We Behold – Postscript
Studio Northfront, Figueira da Foz
Sunday, 6 July 2025

The show opened on a warm July afternoon. The light was golden, the tunes just right, and people drifted in steadily — curious, generous, open. It was one of those rare moments when everything aligns: good weather, good company, and something quietly forming in the space between.

Inside, the six large paintings held the room — strange, familiar, a little haunted. The looped video flickered with fragments: faces shifting, tape rituals, childhood objects, a figure covered in trash walking nowhere in particular.

The sculptures held their corners — the robot seal, the motorcycle bot, and the “empty vessel” with my face sculpted into it. They felt like companions. Guardians, maybe.

Outside, I painted a yellow skull. No big performance. Just a calm act on the pavement — slow, simple, childlike. A quiet trace left behind for a while.

Huge thanks to Natasha Kuzmanovic from The Social Lens for organising the event and to everyone who came, and of course to Studio Northfront for opening their doors to this strange gathering of memory, trash, paint, and feeling. The space was perfect — warm, welcoming, full of possibility.

There’s more to come.

Until then,
Michael