one green eye, one blue emerges from the changing landscape of Campanhã, where old, abandoned industrial infrastructure is being erased and repurposed for luxury property developments.

Through an experimental approach to imagery, the project asks: who and what might inhabit these spaces of transition?

I collected plants from the ruins of old textile factories and the land surrounding the former power station to create an Anthropocene herbarium, using solar photographic processes such as cyanotypes and phytograms. (...) In collaboration with algorithmic agents, I generated bio-images that function as a speculative extension of this research. The information gathered was encoded into prompts to generate new images, expanding the reading of the territory through artificial intelligence processes. These images also served as the basis for the development of new textiles, produced in digital printing factories, creating a new layer of materiality and circulation for the remains of Campanhã.This exhibition forms part of the project(In)visibilities and Drifts

(...) Perhaps this project is also about listening to the visible, about the possibility of perceiving what no longer sounds, but still vibrates. About an archive that does not close in silence, but continues to generate new frequencies—like ruins, which are never empty, but inhabited by stories, ecosystems and resistances that refuse to disappear.

This exhibition is part of the project

(In)visibilities and Drift supported by DGARTES

MIRA Galleries | MIRA FORUM

Directed by Manuela Matos Monteiro and João Lafuente

Communications: Manuela Matos Monteiro and Rita Ferreira Costa

Intern: Rita Ferreira Costa

msdm (mobile strategies of display & mediation) is the research and experimentation platform of the artist Paula Roush, based in London. She develops speculative and participatory methodologies that explore the intersection between photography, the archive and editorial practices. Her recent work investigates image-making processes through ecological and technological materialities, often in collaboration with other artists, researchers and more-than-human ecosystems.

In One Green Eye and the Other Blue, she collaborates with Francisco Varela (content curator), allex (algorithmic agent), Sofia Sequeira Pinto (drift and research on ruins), the Porto Historical Archive, the Porto Hostels, Manuela Matos Monteiro, João Lafuente, as well as residents and creatives from Miraflor and Freixo, to construct a visual and speculative essay on industrial memory and the ecological regeneration of the Campanhã area.

https://www.msdm.org.uk/