Tablecloth with Silicone print, 2025












SILICONE
119 MARVILA STUDIOS | Rua de Marvila 119, Lisboa

Silicone is born from a recurring and obsessive encounter with traces of silicone. Once covered by boards and signs with various information, these marks gradually reveal themselves across the streets of the cities — like anonymous signatures, silent stains ignored in the shadows of a recent past.
Crosses, circles, and serpentines appear as frequent and universal patterns. There are also unique, free and light forms, balanced and symmetrical stains, violent and impatient strokes. Could all this be part of an indecipherable alphabet, whose characters are unconsciously repeated by different individuals?

The collection presented reflects upon an iconography of the present — a time in which everything is transient and easily removable.
Silicone, a fast and flexible material, carries this idea of adaptability and transformation: strong while it serves its function, it quickly vanishes when exposed to the elements.Silicone seeks what the certainty of the visible conceals from us. There is no gesture more instinctive and pure than the one made never to be revealed.

The works gathered in this exhibition capture the cryptic language of silicone stains in decay. Translated into a visual archive, they emerge as monochromatic, almost typographic representations, transforming an unintelligible vocabulary into eternal characters. These symbolic forms — left behind by many hands, personalities, and moods — evoke art brut, an abstract, involuntary street art. The beauty of the ugly becomes an archetype.

Silicone is an eulogy to the invisible, to the improvisation and the improvised, to the forgotten and the ignored. Silicone is an homage to what resists.