The exhibition “Entre Superfícies”, by Filipa Tojal, opens on September 26th, at 6 pm, at the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon and admission is free.

"Entre Superfícies" presents itself as a body of work that begins with painting and expands into sculpture and installation. Fragments and distinct materials—paper, glass, iron, photography—are brought together not by their origin, but by their shared attention to restrained gesture, tonalities, and the subtlety of presence.

Each element remains provisional, open, as part of an ongoing process. The fragility of the paper coexists with the strength of the metal, without one canceling out the other. The pictorial gesture isn't fixed on a single surface: it circulates between planes and layers, insisting on detail and repetition as a form of continuity.

Some of these works originated during the artistic residency In the Rubble (Artworks in partnership with the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon), an experience that allowed for constant interaction with the materials, opening space for new interactions between languages. The exhibition thus proposes itself as a space of relationships: between gesture and material, organic and industrial, painting and object.

Filipa Tojal (1993, Freamunde, Porto) is a visual artist and researcher. She graduated in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and completed her Master's in Painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, where she lived for four years. She has participated in artistic residencies in France, India, Indonesia, and Australia, and has presented her work, both in group and solo exhibitions, in several countries outside Portugal, notably the United States, China, and Japan. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at FBAUP, also collaborating with the Francisco Laranjo Artist Archive.