Alô?
Yuli Yamagata
Curated by Nuno Crespo, João Mourão e Luís Silva
Co-production of School of Arts & Kunsthalle Lissabon
Opening 9 Oct at 18:30
Until 13 Dec
EA Exhibition Hall
Mon to Fri from 14:00 until 19:00

Alô?, Yuli Yamagata's project for the Católica Art Center, presents a universe where strangeness, humor, and irony intersect in a deeply visual and performative language.

The exhibition is organized around a new film conceived by the artist specifically for the occasion, in which an apparent human being questions whether his existence is merely the dream of a snail. Based on this fantastic narrative, Yamagata expands her reflection on parallel realities and the coexistence of infinite versions of ourselves, proposing an immersive journey between the unusual and the everyday, the absurd and the logical, infinite expansion and claustrophobic confinement.

A set of new sculptures complement the film, adding complexity from a formal point of view. These appear as material and narrative processes in constant transformation, linking the artist's imagination to notions of the grotesque, mutation, and hybridity, and giving shape to exuberant figures that oscillate between seduction, discomfort, and even repulsion.

Alô? is the first part of a long-term project developed in partnership with Kunsthalle Lissabon in Lisbon, where the second part will be presented in 2026.