Until 12 April 2024, the Kunstraum Botschaft in Berlin is hosting Free Roam. Curated by Bárbara Borges de Campos and Guilherme Vilhena Martins, this exhibition is an exercise of affinity between the works of Luzia Cruz and André Santos Martins, two Portuguese artists living in the German capital.

There are four works in the exhibition: two installations by Luzia Cruz, Feeding Porcelain for a More Sonic Archaeology (2023) and Glitter Wait (2024); and two video works by André Santos Martins, second (2021) and staircases (2022 – present). From the dialogue between these works, the complexities of the digital and its unfulfilled promises emerge. The speculative theories of a utopian digital society give way to existential considerations of a trans-humanist nature.

What Free Roam proposes is, above all, a reflection on the blurring of the boundaries between public and private space, the virtual and the material. It involves thinking about the digital when it comes to its impact on intimacy and the way we relate. After all, is contemporaneity marked by the privatisation of public space and the simultaneous opening up of the intimate sphere? Until the end of the exhibition, these are the questions that echo in the cultural space of the Camões Institute in Berlin.