Fevereiro 2023
Hyperspace
Performance with acorn infusion serving  Event programmed  by Irruptive Chora
Ikectik Art Lab, London

April 2022
Premeditated Oblivion
Video and performance with acorn infusion serving
Group show Debaixo das Cidades a Revolução
Espaço Mira, Porto

February 2022
Košice Seed Library - Seeds That Move
Sound piece and acorn preparation
Group show at Šopa Gallery
Košice, Slovakia


From Minho to Galizia, acorns are called landras; the leathery fruits of all species in the Quercus genus. We are speaking of oaks in all its shapes and forms.

​Nowadays, modern lifestyles dominate the west, where populations - even in rural places - are gravely dependent on industrial objects and processes, whose production and distribution they do not control. This form of social and economic organisation is a great problem, for it disastrously sets things out of balance for people and, consequently, for all ecosystems in this planet.
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Unlike the grains of the Poaceae; the family of plants like wheat, rice and corn, upon which entire empires have been built (if only to then miserably collapse), landras (acorns) are the fruits of perennial plants. They come from majestic trees, which, beyond living many many years, demand barely no work to harvest the copious amounts of produce they offer us and other animals every year.

In the middle of this all, landras tell us another story; they speak of another form of life; one that has been gradually vanishing in time, but which interestingly enough, becomes every day more necessary.

Acorns are incredibly nutritious (rare thing these days) and, in local history, where folk tales and traditional knowledge remains safeguarded and alive, landras play a paramount role as symbols of freedom, abundance and autonomy. No wonder they were banished by dictatorial corporatist fascist regimes, whose overarching plan for the countries they ruled was to eradicate people's ability to sustain themselves.