ESCANIFOBÉTICA
2025
Solo exhibition at
Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon.
Photo documentation by
Nuno Direitinho
Made possible by the support of
Culture Moves Europe and the Goethe-Institut
"Seven syllables strung together – ES CA NI FO BÉ TI CA – like a discordant rendition of DO-RE-ME from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1959 musical The Sound of Music, shape this Portuguese slang word from the same decade. Though its origin is obscure there’s a point to be made about its off-kilter quality being expressive of what it tries to describe: something clumsy, strange, extravagant and rare"
Folha de sala: exhibition text and list of works
Exhibition CD















