January 25 — March 29, 2025
Galeria Quadrado Azul
Porto, Portugal

Curated by Antonia Gaeta
Support by Balaclava Noir

Solo exhibition

Harlequin unfolds around the figure of the tragicomic survivor — unstable, excessive, vulnerable and endlessly adaptive.

Borrowing from the theatrical logic of Harlequin, the exhibition moves between humour and collapse, intimacy and performance, fiction and confession. The works inhabit a space where fragility becomes performative rather than symbolic: a way of negotiating exposure, dependency and collective presence.

Through first-person videos, improvised narratives, amateur performers and audience interaction, each work emerges from unstable forms of collaboration that blur the distinction between author, character and witness.

Rather than presenting collaboration as harmony, Harlequin approaches it as a condition of vulnerability — a continuous process of negotiation between bodies, voices and projections.

The exhibition constructs an atmosphere suspended between rehearsal and breakdown, where tenderness, failure and theatricality coexist.