Francisco Trêpa

Francisco Trêpa extends his studio into the Engawa Space with a choreography of sculptures in transformation, inspired by CAM’s Garden.

Francisco Trêpa’s (Lisbon, 1995) artistic practice explores the interconnections between life forms, metamorphosis, and hybridism. Gall Ball is inspired by the observation of galls found in CAM’s Garden, where the artist first encountered these biological reactions resulting from interactions between plants (such as oaks) and external agents (such as wasps). The effect is a swelling growth on the outside of the plant, providing nutrition and shelter to induce insects.

Gall Ball serves as the prologue to ‘Institution(ing)s’ and is developed within the framework of the protocol between CAM and the international academic programme The Lisbon Consortium (MA and PhD in Culture Studies) at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. The curatorial team comprises students from the Curatorial Practices course in the MA in Culture Studies.