EXHIBITION // TALKS

THE PLACES WHERE MEANING BREAKS DOWN

Eduardo Sousa Riberio
Leonor Hipólito

Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro is a photographer and visual artist. His work has focused on questions related to territory, memory, and social and spatial transformations. He has been developing projects that frequently take the form of photobooks, where the sequencing of images constructs its own visual narrative.
More recently, he has been exploring the possibility of expanding this language into other materialities and scales, bringing into the exhibition space the sensory experience of the image and allowing the visitor’s body to physically participate in a narrative that was previously purely visual.

Leonor Hipólito is a visual artist. Her practice spans contemporary
jewellery, poetry, drawing, sculpture, and installation.
Since 1999 she has been developing an independent and transdisciplinary body of work in which intuition and attentiveness to bodily presence manifest in objects, gestures, and actions.
Her poetic thought runs through her projects, binding together matter, body, and language.
Since 2009 she has been publishing her poetry and art books through idembooks, aeditorial project that is also an extension of her artistic practice.

This is the second collaboration between Eduardo and Leonor, following the exhibition Entre a poeira do vidro e a sombra do corpo, presented in 2024.

For this new exhibition at Procurarte, the two artists return to a dialogue around spatiality and materiality, bringing together the body and gesture, image and form, in a journey that relates intimately with the architecture of the exhibition space.

TALK//
Independent Publishing and Visual Arts
KIOSKZINE.18

A dedicated exploration of photography, visual arts books, and independent print culture took center stage at the Procur.Arte exhibition space, culminating in a deep dive into the world of alternative publishing. The event centered on an insightful discussion titled Independent Publishing of Art and Photography Books, which brought together a compelling panel of creators and publishers, including Leonor Hipólito, Arne Kaiser from idembooks, Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro, and José Farinha representing Kioskzine.

This editorial focus was further highlighted by the official presentation of Kioskzine 18 – Hotel Areosa by Bruno Silva. The launch provided a rare opportunity to explore the project firsthand, as the author was joined by Paulo Pimenta to discuss the creative and logistical journey behind the publication, sparking an engaging conversation on the vital role of zines and independent print in the contemporary art market.

Serving as the perfect conceptual backdrop to these publishing insights was the exhibition The Places Where Meaning Breaks Down, a collaborative project by Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro and Leonor Hipólito. To mark the exhibition's finissage, the event began with a guided tour led directly by the artists, who walked the audience through their dialogue on spatiality and materiality. By blending body, gesture, image, and form, their work interacted directly with the architecture of the gallery, creating a seamless connection between the physical artwork on display and the printed pages discussed during the talk.

Kioskzine 18.0: Hotel Areosa
BRUNO SILVA
The eighteenth edition of Kioskzine featured the work of guest photographer Bruno Silva, titled Hotel Areosa. The project delves into Areosa, a very specific geographical and conceptual territory located at the intersection of Porto, Maia, and Gondomar—a place that belongs enough to everyone to belong truly to no one. Through Silva’s lens, the work portrays a space of missed connections, where streets rehearse, sidewalks hesitate, and the city always seems on the verge of happening. This edition received official support from the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport, through the Directorate-General for the Arts.

Bruno Silva’s photographic practice is rooted in a documentary approach focused on territory and memory, exploring the intimate relationship between place and image through continuous photographic surveying, while simultaneously investigating photography as a medium and questioning its potential and limitations. Born in Porto in 1983, where he currently lives and works, the artist was awarded a scholarship for the Master in Artistic Photography at the Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem in 2017.

Since 2018, he has exhibited regularly both in Portugal and abroad, with notable solo and group exhibitions at Galeria Adorna, the Circulation(s) Festival in Paris, the Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Cerveira, the Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira, the Encontros da Imagem Festival in Braga, and the Imago Lisboa Photo Festival.
His international career also includes participations in prominent events such as the FotoNoviembre Festival in Spain, PhMuseum Days in Italy, Les Boutographies in France, OstLicht in Austria, and Photo Alicante in Spain.

Represented by Galeria Adorna in Porto, Bruno Silva’s work is featured in several public and private collections and has been widely recognized within the art community.
His accolades include the Estação Imagem Grant in 2018, the Winner Portfolio prize at the Urbanautica Institute Awards in 2020, the "Portugal Focus" selection at the Circulation(s) Festival, the "Novos Artistas" distinction at the Bienal de Cerveira in 2020, an Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira in 2022, and the GOMMA Black & White Grant in 2025.