Cenários Futuros

Cenários Futuros is a project of listening, mapping, speculation, and collaborative artistic creation that addresses the concept of the post-natural in its multiple expressions. The project was structured as a collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation that is sensitive to the relationship between local communities and the perceptions–transformations–narratives–imagery of the territory.

The concept of the post-natural refers to a nature that has already been extensively shaped by human intervention–conception, where the boundaries between the natural and the artificial are fluid and dynamic. By expanding the understanding of the landscape as a manufactured space, shaped by ecological, cultural, economic, ethical, and aesthetic forces, we foster a dialogue on Domination and (Re)production in the contemporary context. This project acts as a meeting point between artistic practices and ecologies, reimagining the relationship between communities and landscape, between the human and the more-than-human, between the natural and the post-natural, while encouraging the creation of more harmonious collective alternative futures.

Cenários Futuros

Multimedia installation

We live in an era in which human action has become a geological force. In this context, the natural no longer stands in opposition to the artificial but reveals itself as a cultural and historical construction of reality. Cenários Futuros proposes a symbolic reflection on the multiple expressions of nature in the Anthropocene.

Through a process of listening to the landscape and to the human and more-than-human bodies that inhabit or constitute it, an archive was created that seeks to reveal how even seemingly wild places are the stage for profound transformations. These changes are driven by persistent forces such as climate change, hyper-consumption, pollution, the introduction of exotic species, capitalism, among others.

Cenários Futuros, a multimedia installation, invites listening and observation, proposing a journey where nature, culture, and society are no longer separate categories but intertwine in a single gesture shaped between the real and the fictional. A world in constant transformation, where the paradoxes and collective tensions of the present become visible.

Photos by Tito Mouraz

Artistic Direction: Fernando Almeida

Artistic Team: Carina Moutinho, Carolina Ribeiro, Fernando Almeida, Paulo César Silva, Rodrigo Malvar, Tito Mouraz

Contributions: Mr. Augusto, Mr. Avelino, Mr. José, Mrs. Adriana, Mrs. Luísa, Mr. António, Mrs. Arminda, Bruno Cerqueira, Banda Musical de Vila Verde, Ivo Campos, Maria Rita Queirós, José Lopes Coelho, António Cândido, Mr. Aníbal, Pirotecnia Inovadora Lda, and all the more-than-human beings we could not name here.

Collaboration: Catarina Lacerda

Mediation: Martinho Antunes

Production Direction: Carina Moutinho

Executive Production: Tiago Silva

Communication: Sara Cunha

Graphic Design: Sérgio Couto

Acknowledgments: Liliana Brandão (Valoriza), Organization of the Easter crossing of the Homem river, Ivo Campos (Sociedade Agrícola Quinta das Pontesinhas), Paulo Oliveira (Património Cultural IP), Vítor Gonçalves (Património Cultural IP), Paulo Macedo (Lago dos Cisnes), Pedro Machado (Braval), Sérgio (Braval), Pedro Araújo (CMA), Susana Antunes (JF Bouro, St. Marta), Serração de São Vicente do Bico.

Creation: Pele

Co-financing: Portuguese Republic – Culture, Directorate-General for the Arts
Support: Municipality of Amares, Francisco Sá de Miranda Municipal Library, Património Cultural I.P., Clube Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Amarense, Valoriza ADL, Encontrarte Amares, Braval, Sociedade Agrícola da Quinta das Pontesinhas, Bonfim Parish Council, Fiscal Parish Council, Bouro Parish Council, Santa Marta Parish Council.