Diogo da Cruz

2019

Andreia Santana

Portugal

iron, painting, audiovisual material, chamfering, copper, welding machine

Sonoscopia

2020

Berru

Portugal

iron, electronic material, audiovisual material, welding machine

Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica do Porto

2019

Carlos Arteiro

Portugal

glass, expanded polystyrene, painting, suction cups

Mala Voadora

2024

Catarina Real

Portugal

steel, aluminium, drill, painting, grinder, metal workshop, 3D print

2025

Charity Hamidullah

USA

acrylic, aluminium, drill, chamfering, cardboard, iron, fiberglass, stainless steel, painting, grinder, welding machine, handsaw, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline

2025

Christian Lagata

Spain

drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, expanded polystyrene, iron, wood, stainless steel, painting, bender, grinder, circular saw, welding machine, metal workshop

2023

Cristina Mejias

Spain

glass, wood, iron, electronic material, brass, polyurea paint

Matadero Madrid, BF Glass Studio, Eneida Tavares

2023

Dayana Lucas

Venezuela, Portugal

plasma cutting, laser cut, expanded polystyrene, iron, painting, composite workshop, welding machine, glass

CIAJG

2021

Diogo da Cruz

Portugal

plasma cutting, iron, welding machine

Revista Umbigo

Diogo da Cruz

open call / Looking up from Underneath

Diogo da Cruz is an artist based in Lisbon and Munich. Hispractice relies on the use of technologies to imitate, re-articulate or re-imagine unchallenged structures and systems inwestern society. He works on long-term projects that are drivenby partially fictive scenarios. These fictive scenarios are oftenproduced from scientific findings and historical documentsreferring to past, present or future socio-politicalcircumstances, materialising itself as installations, sculpturaland video work.He received a BA in Sculpture from the FBAUL (2013) and aDiploma in Sculpture from the ADBK München (2016).

He participated in the ISP of Maumaus – Escola de Artes Visuais inLisbon (2016).His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions in Europe,Russia and Uruguay, including the solo exhibitions: “A shot inthe dark nights of absence” TUM Physics Department Munich2023, “our water will meet” Walk&Talk Azores 2022, “looking upfrom underneath” Forum Arte Braga 2021 and group exhibitionsin institutions such as: S1 ARTSPACE United Kingdom 2023,arthereistanbul in Turkey 2021, Serralves Museum in Porto 2019and Espacio de Arte Contemporáne in Montevideo-Uruguay2019. Da Cruz is assistant professor at the Academy of FineArts in Munich since 2018.

(This residency happended in partnership with Umbigo Magazine and ended with an exhibition at Forum Arte Braga)

Inasmuch as human beings seek answers for the unsolved questions of their lives deep within themselves, where only water can hold them, the Ocean depths hold all the misplaced and unresolved aspects of our civilisation’s colonial past atrocities. Going deep is a speculative action — both literally and metaphorically. Through his artistic research and practice, da Cruz shows us how depth and water are so intrinsically, biologically, historically, and economically connected within our body, the ocean that separates and connects our different geographies, and the financial capitalistic interest represented by that underwater mining.

Diogo da Cruz investigates this decentralised memory, lying deep in the waters that make up the oceans and our human bodies, inverting our vertical perspective — from the top to the bottom. Drifting, he explores new ways of thinking about life across physical, chronological, and geographical boundaries. By daring to imagine new connections between water and depth, he reflects on and suggests new forms of caring for the waters in our bodies and in the oceans, picturing them as vast mnemonic devices that remember who we were, who we are, and who we will be, both as individuals and as a community.

Irene Campolmi

Credits

partnership with Revista Umbigo

resources: iron, plasma cutting, welding
format: open call
photo & video: Bruno Lança

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2025

Filipa Tojal

Portugal

chamfering, aluminium, drill, plasma cutting, iron, stainless steel, audiovisual material, painting, glass, metal workshop

Escola das Artes, Un. Autónoma de Lisboa

2018

Francisca Carvalho

Portugal

iron, welding machine, glass

Câmara Municipal Póvoa de Varzim

2023

Frida Baranek

Brasil

steel, stainless steel, brass, iron, cement, rubber, electronic material, bituminous, motorization, stone, welding machine, glass

2019

Gil Madeira

Portugal, Switzerland

glass, painting

2019

Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo

Portugal

aluminium, glass

2024

Guilherme Figueiredo

Portugal

chamfering, ceramic, laser cut, iron, wood, audiovisual material, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

João Pedro Trindade

Portugal

iron, plastic, aluminium

2018

Jérémy Pajeanc

França, Portugal

glass, aluminium

2025

Kyra Nijskens

Netherlands

drill, chamfering, expanded polystyrene, fiberglass, painting, composite workshop, grinder, bender, plastic, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

Luísa Jacinto

Portugal

iron, painting, bender

AiR 351

2024

Maria Constanza Ferreira

EUA, Venezuela, Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, audiovisual material, motorization, painting, glass

Covipor

2019

Maria Trabulo

Portugal

plasma cutting, painting, aluminium

Correntes d'escritas

2025

Marryam Moma

Tanzania, Nigeria, USA

glass, fiberglass, iron, aluminium, drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, painting, grinder, circular saw, handsaw, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline