The exhibition Lá ao Sul de Tudo opens on April 23 at 6:00 PM at the Sala Domingos Rebelo – Núcleo de Santo André of the Carlos Machado Museum, where it will remain on display until June 6, 2026. This project is part of the Visual Arts programming for Ponta Delgada 2026, the Portuguese Capital of Culture (PDL26).

"What remains of a body when it is removed from its place? This exhibition does not present a finished work, but rather the process of questioning an object torn from its original geography. The sculpture presented here, once an inhabitant of the mist and the shifting light of Lagoa de São Brás, now emerges as an unusual body. The gallery space, therefore, becomes a site of speculative archaeology. The drawings and paintings accompanying the work did not precede it; on the contrary, they are subsequent attempts to understand its nature, its mass, and its silence. Through this inversion, the project renounces explanation to affirm the enigma. The video does not document; it evokes the trace of an action. Drawing and painting do not project; they analyze the apparition. We are faced with a device that does not seek to provide answers, but rather to build an atmosphere where the viewer is invited to complete the narrative of this displacement."

José Maçãs de Carvalho Curator of Visual Arts — Ponta Delgada, National Capital of Culture

Bárbara Jasmins (Ponta Delgada, 1994) Bárbara Jasmins is a visual artist holding a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. With a practice situated between painting, installation, sound, video, photography, and performance, her work focuses on issues related to what remains hidden from human perception, employing pictorial discourses that question the limits of recognition within the aesthetic experience.

She utilizes hybrid imagery and the natural world to create ambiguous zones, exploring ontological questions of the image through the concept of spectrality, the gothic imaginary, and the persistence of forms that escape immediate reading. She conceives her praxis in critical dialogue with models of nature, detecting within the processing of materials an inherent power that radicalizes these inquiries.

Key Exhibitions:

• SOMNUM (Ribeira Grande Municipal Museum, 2021–2022)

• AVUSMATER (Lisbon, 2022)

• XVI Artistic Ceramics Biennial of Aveiro (2023)

• European Glass Context (Denmark, 2021) — Representing Portugal

• Water Tower Art Fest (Lom and Sofia, 2024)

• BREATH (CICA Museum, South Korea, 2025)

• Mapping the Unstable (ACENTRICSPACE, Shanghai, 2025)