In this station, the body appears as a suspended territory — a surface where habits, gestures, and ways of being are inscribed, but also a place of projection, silence, and listening. Through photography and sculpture, the works presented here outline a relational cartography: images and forms that interlace, suggesting connections between bodies, infrastructures, and landscapes of the Azores and other Atlantic archipelagos. They are fragments of the same inquiry into presence and impermanence, into how we inscribe ourselves in territories of water, stone, and light.

Works on Display

José Pedro Cortes (new commission)
Ocean Rain (2025)
Drawing from images collected over time across different Atlantic archipelagos, José Pedro Cortes explores impermanence, immersion, and silent observation. Through photography, he traces bodies and infrastructures in dialogue with a subterranean and volcanic cartography, where documentary recording meets the poetic potency of an attentive gaze. His landscapes, portraits, and still lifes become visual maps of contemporary life — open, transitory, and unfinished.

Joana Albuquerque
Grandes Podões (2024)
These sculptures are part of a series where the artists extend the relationship between body and territory. The title plays on a double meaning — pruning tools, and the Azorean expression used to describe someone clumsy or unfit for work. The pieces evoke the shadows of resting bodies at Pesqueiro, stretched out in the sun and water. Seen in a state of unproductivity, the body-tool is reclaimed not as an instrument of labour, but as an inscription of collective, routine, and therapeutic practices.