This encounter forms part of the public programme for the exhibition pencils for colouring grey days – Works from the EDP Foundation Art Collection and aims to provide a space for reflection on how art can act as a mechanism for emotional escape and as an instrument of sensitive resistance, rediscovering narratives and emotional bonds.

The discussion and relational dialogue with the audience take place in a transdisciplinary context of participation and creation, in a workshop with poet and essayist Raquel Lima. Based on the card by artist Carlos Nogueira, which gives the exhibition its title, participants will be invited to slow down, breathe, and incorporate and intuit a poem, which they will write on a small card. 

The workshop will feature a presentation on the facilitator's creative processes, as well as on how the exhibition evokes movements, based on the works shown, which dialogue with the poetic gesture– namely working the body, immersing oneself in the work, and evoking the inner world. Contemplating a cluster of concepts will also serve as a starting point for this experience – home, shelter, music, love, alchemy, metamorphosis, sacred, nature, colour, world, cosmos, and knowledge.

Art-Affection: Unlikely Encounters is a programme developed within the scope of the exhibition pencils for colouring grey days – Works from the EDP Foundation Art Collection, which calls upon the generosity of artists and their works capable of transforming moments.

Target Audience

People who are curious and interested in the subject.

Students and professionals in the visual arts, literature, sociology, psychology and other areas of knowledge.

Practical Information

Date: 17 January, 3:30 PM–6:30 PM

Duration: 3 hours

Language: Portuguese 

Capacity: min. 10, max. 40 people

Location: MAAT Central

Meeting point: in front of the MAAT Central ticket office

Price: € 15 | 25% discount for MAAT Friends and students (upon presentation of card)

About the Instructor

Raquel Lima is a poet, art educator, performer, essayist, and transdisciplinary artist. She has a degree in Artistic Studies - Performing Arts and is a doctoral researcher in Postcolonial Studies, with a particular interest in orature, intergenerational memory, movements of the African diaspora, and contemporary practices of escapism, abstraction, and healing.

She has presented her academic and artistic work in several countries, notably at the Venice and São Paulo Biennials.

She was voted one of the 100 most influential black personalities in the Portuguese-speaking world by Bantumen magazine and co-founded the União Negra das Artes association.