INDIGENOUS, EXOTIC, INVASIVE
Exhibition
Indigenous, Exotic, Invasive
Adonis Galvão
Santa Cruz Cultural Center
Opening April 30th
Thursday 6 PM
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Until June 13th
Extended until June 17th
Monday to Friday 9 AM to 6 PM
Saturday 2 PM to 6 PM
Rua Bela de São José
Santa Cruz
Madeira Island
Coordinator | Santa Cruz Cultural Center
Emanuel Gaspar
Curation and texts
Marcia Zoé Ramos
Designer
Tomásia Castro
Technical Team
Ana Filipa Pereira, Joana Sousa, Joana Spínola, Pedro Sousa, Pedro Ribeiro, Rafaela Rodrigues, Taciana Gouveia e Zé Ferreira.
Mounting
Tomás Ornelas, Diogo Ribeiro
Tree support
Joel Souza - Viveiro Souza
PRESENTATION
Indigenous, Exotic, Invasive proposes a reflection on the landscape as a field of constantly transforming relationships, where nature, culture, and history intertwine. Using the Madeira archipelago as a research territory, the exhibition addresses the tensions between native, introduced, and invasive species, questioning categories that seek to establish identities in the living world.
Based on an understanding of life as a network—permeated by displacements, contaminations, and alliances—Adonis Galvão's work explores zones of transition between the organic and the artificial, the natural and the constructed. The artist's works, which range from painting and digital media to installations, articulate forms and atmospheres that evoke both the memory of original ecosystems and future scenarios, where nature also becomes synthesis and invention.
The exhibition invites the public to rethink notions of belonging, highlighting flora and landscape as an impermanent yet dynamic process—simultaneously aesthetic, ecological, and political.
OPENING PHOTOS
