Air Topographies brings together the work of three students from the Master's in Fine Arts, Sculpture branch, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, resulting from a theoretical-practical investigation developed throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.The exhibition emerges from the intersection of three processes that convergein the relationship between body, landscape, and remnants, through the act of beingpresent, deconstruction, and attention to the details and latent manifestations that arisefrom the interaction with the space.In this context, sculpture is defined by the sensitive inscription of the transient. Through the collection of objects and materials, mapping, and observation of the rhythms of theenvironment, each artist unfolds their intimate experience of these encounters,materializing, in objects, videos, and sculptural compositions, the relationship between the space and the remnants that persist and reconfigure within it.The remnants are established as the central element of the exhibition, functioningsimultaneously as a testimony to the action and as sculptural material. The remnantsleft by movement—whether physical, sound, or symbolic—emerge as testimonies ofa fluid territory, situated between materiality and the subjective dimension of theencounter with the sea, the cosmos, the forest, and the stillness of the observer.Through an exercise of slowing down and attention, Air Topographies proposes a shift inperspective and perception, encouraging the encounter between different practices,bodies, and processes that converge with the same purpose: to root a presence in thehere and now, in continuous transformation.

Cecília Lima, Brazilian, born in 1997, is a visual artist who lives and works in Porto,Portugal. In her practice, daily displacements are the guiding thread of her experiments in media such as sculpture, sound art, video, among others. Her investigations stem from the collection of objects and images found along her paths and their intersection with concepts from the natural sciences, where the scale between the ordinary and the sidereal is constantly rearranged in space.The artist holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Brasília – UnB, Brazil, and iscurrently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University ofPorto, in Portugal. She has been exhibiting regularly since 2017 in Brazil and othercountries. In 2019, she held her first solo exhibition at Espronceda Art and Culture Gallery, in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, she was nominated for the 11th edition of the PIPA Prize.

Inês Mendes T. (b. 2001, Vila Nova de Famalicão) holds a degree in Fine Arts from theEscola Superior de Artes e Design of Caldas da Rainha and is currently completing an MAin Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Since 2022, exhibitions havetaken place in Caldas da Rainha, Guimarães and Porto.Operating on the edge of the real and the imagined, the practice engages space and itselements as sensitive material in constant dialogue.Between the concrete and reverie, the work proposes a reflection on coexistence andinterdependence, emphasizing traces, gestures, and dualities: the movement from theexterior to the intimate, the shifts from presence to absence, the transformation from thetangible to the evocation.

Teresa Bastos was born in 2002 in Vila Real, where she graduated in Visual Arts from theCamilo Castelo Branco Secondary School (2020). In the same year, she enrolled at theFaculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, completing her degree in Fine Arts -Sculpture in 2024. She is currently studying for a Master's Degree in Fine Arts at the same Faculty, continuing to deepen her artistic practice as a way of taking a break fromcontemporary ways of being. Articulating areas such as sculpture, performance, painting, drawing and photography, she has held group exhibitions and public interventions in Vila Real, Porto and Guimarães, the cities that host her artistic practice.