21 Mar — 25 Apr 2026 @Porto

A leveza de ser (invisível) by Fábio Araújo

Sometimes less is more.

The expression is there. It is assertive, exact… succinct.

(it was Mies’ motto—who are we to judge him...)

Reducing to the essential, we might say.

Is it in this act that we would become light?

Freed?

To be light, as a primary objective.

And to become the banality of everyday life. Without the weight that takes up space, that crushes, that suffocates us, that makes us lie down, look at the sky, and wish to be light.

And we, in our daily routine, tragically erring in what we do, say, and in other things that are nothing more than things of things of things.

To be light, as a primary objective.

Like a dog that walks, that strolls and occupies the city.

But no one sees it.

A dog that exists, without existing.

Or exists, like a phantom limb.

One imagines a leash, a taut and empty red collar walking through the streets of Prague, like a reserve where desired images are projected.

Could being light also mean being free?

(The question is banal and reductive, no doubt—but does it have an answer?)

Fábio Araújo

Fábio Araújo Lives and works between Santa Maria da Feira, Porto and Guimarães, PT. MA in Drawing – Fine Arts (2020) and BA in Painting – Fine Arts (2018), FBAUP. Student at AVU, Prague, CZ (2019/20). Has exhibited since 2012, including the exhibition “Na Noite, os elefantes dormem de pé”(2026), Área 55, Guimarães, PT; “Solúvel” (2026), SPUT&NIK, Porto; “Risco de Queda” (2025) with the collective Araújo Mota Teixeira, Galeria Pato, Évora, PT; “Cumulus – ou a nuvem mais pesada” (2024) with David Lopes, oInstituto, Porto; “Ensaio para uma verdade inventada” (2023), with Rui Mota, Galeria Ocupa!, Porto; the solo exhibitions “Postura(s)” (2025), Extéril, Porto; “Na banheira não há peixes...” (2022), ArtLab24, Espinho; “As Ações de Praga” (2021), Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira; “Expedições Urbanas” (2021), Fundação Júlio Resende; and “Backyard interventions (or how to deviate from it’s sayings)” (2021), B93, Enschede, NL. Winner of the “Chamada de Apoio à Criação Local” for the development project “Tenho o teu Nariz!”, presented at Imaginarius’24 and Serralves em Festa 2024. Winner of the “Concurso Novos Artistas 2021”, Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira; shortlisted to “Portuguese Emerging Art” (2020) and “Prémio Carpe Diem Arte Jovem Millennium BCP” (2019); art residencies at “Can Serrat” (2022), Barcelona; “Mescla em Residência” (2022), Oficina Mescla, Porto; “CreArt AiR” (2021), Artkomas, Kaunas, LT; “air_Pousio – Bonecreiro” (2021), Barcelos, PT; and “ARE Residency” (2021), Enschede, NL. Artistic director of the project “oBastidor” with Rui Mota and Alexandre Teixeira and of CiRARTES – Encontro de Artes Plásticas, CiRAC (2024-25), Paços de Brandão, PT. Invited Assistant Lecturer at FAUP and EAAD – University of Minho.