Dissemination
Susana de Medeiros opens the exhibition “Chão Comum: Terraphilia” on 5 February
The exhibition Chão Comum: Terraphilia, by visual artist Susana de Medeiros, opens on 5 February 2026, at 6:00 pm, at Galeria Trem / Manuel Baptista, in Faro, where it will remain on view until 26 April 2026.
Chão Comum: Terraphilia presents a body of work resulting from an artistic research project centred on the relationship between humans, territory and other living beings, proposing a critical reflection on the “common ground” we share and on possible forms of coexistence in the context of an ecological crisis understood as a civilisational crisis, in an approach that intersects art, philosophy and contemporary ecological thought.
The project unfolds through a diverse set of works — sculptures, installations, drawings, artist’s books and organic elements — created from materials collected in different territories and combined with industrially transformed matter. Through houses, boats, seeds, words and fragments of soil, the exhibition proposes an “landing” on territory, valuing the body, sensory experience and the relational dimension of art.
The central work of the exhibition, a boat carrying seeds, functions as a metaphor for displacement, care and the possibility of germinating new ways of inhabiting the world. As highlighted in the accompanying text by Mirian Tavares, the exhibition invites viewers to look at what lies beneath our feet — the soil that sustains us — and to rethink, from this perspective, the tentacular connections that bind humans and non-humans.
With Chão Comum: Terraphilia, Susana de Medeiros proposes art as a space for reflection, micro-utopias and openness to transformative processes, inviting the public to an aesthetic experience that challenges habitual modes of thinking and encourages new forms of attention, listening and belonging to the world.
Promoted by the FCHS – Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve, CIAC – Research Centre for Arts and Communication, and FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, the exhibition also benefits from the support of the Municipality of Faro and the Municipal Museum of Faro.
Esta publicação também está disponível em: Portuguese (Portugal)