Six months after the artistic residency under the same title, Sal na Ferida (Salt in the Wound) now materializes as an exhibition, bringing forth the dialogues and concerns developed by Amanda Triano and Cláudia Simões in the territory of Loulé. Emerging from a process of immersion, the artists offer a visual and poetic exercise that traverses temporalities, memories, and tensions between body, nature, and matter.

Salt, both a preservative and corrosive element, unconsciously becomes the central metaphor of what is here presented for us to see. Amanda Triano explores the confrontation between the natural and the artificial, creating a space where Nature activates a critical lens on the processes of its own musealization and archiving. Through a speculative gaze, the artist proposes enigmas of a post-natural landscape.

In her sculptures and installations, Triano presents a scenario where Nature generates a scenography of new possibilities of co-dependence between historical events and exhibited objects — evoking a kind of trace of the fall of time and the decay of what was once alive. Her works function as vestiges and temporal paradoxes, challenging the viewer’s perception between ruin and regeneration. – Miguel Cheta.