March 15 - April 15, 2017
Galeria Múrias Centeno,
Lisbon, Portugal

Solo exhibition

Man with really soft hands is a performative installation and exhibition project developed around a chain of sculptural and narrative operations that investigate how objects can emerge from encounter, anecdote and displaced perception.

The work originates from a fictionalised yet affectively grounded figure — a man whose hands become the entry point for a broader reflection on tactility, vulnerability and the ambiguity of physical presence. Rather than functioning as a portrait, this figure operates as a trigger for a series of material and conceptual translations.

The exhibition combines sculpture, drawing and installation in a system where objects are not autonomous outcomes but condensed residues of stories, conversations and imagined encounters. Material forms appear as if they have passed through speech before becoming matter, carrying with them traces of narration, exaggeration and misrecognition.

Presented at Galeria Múrias Centeno (including its presentation at Frieze London), the project unfolds between exhibition space and art fair context, oscillating between domestic scale and commercial visibility.

Within this framework, “softness” functions less as a physical property than as an operative condition: a way of describing the permeability between body, object and narrative projection. The hand becomes a site of projection, where intimacy and estrangement coexist.

Rather than offering a stable narrative about a subject, Man with really soft hands constructs a field of partial recognition, where objects, speech and memory circulate as unstable carriers of meaning.