Tiago Madaleno's (Vila Nova de Gaia, 1992) approach to artmaking is transdisciplinary. His creative process attempts to establish a dialogue between different medias’ histories, properties and specificities, in order to build fictional worlds that reflect upon image-making, language and performance. He has a Bachelor’s (2014) and a Master’s degree (2016) in Fine Arts from FBAUP, Porto, and has exhibited regularly since 2013. Highlight to the most recent participation in the collective exhibition “Lucid Reverie: Panorama of Portuguese Contemporary Art” (2025), curated by Hiuwai Chu and Raphael Fonseca, at Galeria Municipal do Porto. His work has been supported and distinguished with several prizes and mentions, such as the NOVO BANCO Revelação award 2017, promoted by the Serralves Foundation.
+ info: www.tiagomadaleno.com

Joana Patrão (1992, Barcelos). Visual artist whose practice fluctuates between video, photography, drawing, and installation. Crossing historical, natural, and cultural references, she seeks different ways of analysing the idea of landscape, from its tensions to its relational possibilities. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto – Fine Arts (2014) and Master's in Painting (2016) – and from Aalto University (Erasmus+), Finland. Since 2014, she has exhibited regularly, with highlights including the solo exhibition A brisa do maremoto (Appleton [BOX], Lisbon, 2021) and the group exhibitions Desnaturadas (RAMPA, Porto, curated by Vera Carmo, 2025) and Super Natural Voices (MONO, Lisbon, curated by Jule Kurbjeweit, 2024). She frequently participates in artist residencies and publications. More info: www.joanapatrao.com

As a duo, they have been working on the project “Glossolalia,” where they draw on the world of road movies and cinema to reflect on the representation of the idea of a couple based on the linguistic and material properties of different media.