Saturday, OCTOBER 4 . 4:30 PM
Pátio da Galé. By invitation only

TRUGIA
 Regionalism / Alentejo, Algarve
 “a set of objects without use or value; clutter”

In the popular vocabulary of Alentejo, trugia refers to a set of objects without use or value — those that, though no longer serving a purpose, remain kept. Yet the word also carries another dimension: the silent beauty of what survives beyond its utility.

The collection draws from this imagery. It revisits forgotten objects, seemingly useless, but which endure as witnesses of the past. The doll we once played with every day, the suitcase with worn corners, the pile of old clothes, and the box where they rest, covered in dust — objects, fragments of our history that no longer have function, yet we keep them. All of these elements compose the silent landscape that inspires the collection.

The collection acknowledges its own ephemerality: the pieces appear with the awareness that they, too, will one day become trugia — destined to be forgotten, yet always susceptible to being rediscovered.