INÊS QUEIRÓS

Traces of Becoming unfolds within the living quarters of Barreiro, across the river from Lisbon, where the fragility of home is constantly negotiated. Walls breathe neglect and the weight of uneven care. As new buildings rise along the riverfront, older homes quietly erode, exposing the social and material fragility of urban expansion and the changing value of the places we call home, while carrying the stories of those who remain.

From these overlooked places, I gather ruin dust, wall fragments, and pigments from the plants growing between cracks. These remnants are brought together to form fragile surfaces that hold traces of what is disappearing. Surfaces that carry the memory of the city’s skin, fragile, shifting, alive.

Between erosion and creation, absence and persistence, the work becomes an archaeology of the present, listening to the murmurs of time held within matter, where every ruin is still becoming. A homage to the resilience of the bodies and homes that continue to shelter, and a gesture of care for what a changing city risks forgetting.