Behind CONVERGÊNCIA
Amanda is a Brazilian visual artist and printmaker based in Portugal. She develops her work through drawing to address themes related to intimacy and everyday urban life. Narrative, image, and autofiction are central to her research.
She is a PhD student in Fine Arts at the University of Porto, a member of the printing collective Oficina do Homem do Saco (Lisbon), and has been active in the independent print circuit since 2015, splitting her work between Porto and Lisbon.
André Zuccolo is a Brazilian independent visual artist based in Lisbon. With a decade of experience as a photographer, André draws inspiration from the colours and compositions found in the streets around him, as well as the textures, patterns and forms of the natural world. His abstract paintings are guided by intuition, curiosity and experimentation, allowing each work to evolve organically.
Working through diverse techniques and layers, André combines continuous lines, free-form shapes and contrasting colours to create compositions that balance structure with spontaneity. His practice is rooted in exploration, with each piece reflecting an instinctive and evolving approach to colour, form and expression.
Batu Behram is a Cyprus-born artist and architect whose practice spans performance, installation, sound, video, and painting.
Since 2025, Behram has been developing a body of work centered on proximity, engaging directly with sites, communities, and lived environments. His practice often responds to moments of social rupture and spatial injustice, incorporating field recordings, text, and image gathered through long-term presence. His latest work displayed at Parallel Society emerges from time spent in neighborhoods such as Talude, Apelação, and Quinta do Mocho, reflecting on displacement, erasure, and the politics of visibility, framing proximity as both method and ethical position.
After thirteen years tattooing, Eloiza has opened up increasingly more space in recent years for painting, music, and audiovisual direction. Her research draws on a tropical mysticism built from Brazilian imagery, archetypes rooted in tarot symbolism, and the personal mythology of an artist who lives in permanent transit between Brazil and Portugal, never fully settled in either, and increasingly interested in what that unsettledness produces.
Her work moves just as easily between commercial and institutional spaces, from collaborations with brands to gallery walls. Several of the works presented here are studies from her ongoing research toward “Travessia”, her upcoming solo exhibition – an inquiry into crossing, in every sense the word allows: geographic and symbolic.
Harry is a British artist, currently living and working in Lisbon. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography and filmmaking.
Employing an inquisitive approach to colour, surface texture and imagery, his cinematically stylised compositions oscillate between the familiar and the fabricated. Everyday scenes are imbued with a heightened sense of atmosphere; where memory and desire converge in hazy, sun-tinted vignettes suggestive of a half-remembered past.
The vibrant, saturated ensembles are observant, witty, and escapist; pairing the everyday with invented narratives, Pop culture and romance. Functioning as both portals and surfaces to get lost in, and where the act of looking becomes an act of longing in itself. Paired with a sense of familiarity, the works ultimately blur the line between fact and fiction; between art and life.
https://www.harrycartwright.co.uk/
Inês Mojo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portugal.
Born in Lisbon and raised in Madeira, Inês is deeply influenced by rich colours and dreamy spaces.
She treats her work with an impermanence and curiosity reminiscent of her childhood – imaginary and not – whilst still translating the hardest parts of everything since. She finds her work to be a window into further understanding herself, the world and everything in between.
Garra is the ceramic practice of Kimberley Peek, a Dutch-Nicaraguan artist living and working in Lisbon. Her work explores the natural world and the body through animals, flowers, mythology, and folklore. Working primarily in clay and incorporating materials such as thread and metal, she creates organic, often spiked forms that move between the familiar and the strange, the delicate and the threatening, blooming and rotting.
Kimberley has a background in medical microbiology and epidemiology, which has shaped her fascination with the body, nature, growth, and decay. Her practice navigates the tension between softness and hardness, something she sees as deeply integral to the lived experience of being a woman.
Madre Deus is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist. Her journey started with drawing and continued with sewing. The line of the pencil became the line of the thread combining the world of art and fashion.
Having lived in different countries (Zimbabwe, Brazil, France…) throughout her life, her personal works often reflects on the meaning of home, identity and the search for both – literally and metaphorically. She finds artistic expression in multiple media, from drawings to collages, textiles and hybrid three-dimensional constructions.
Madre has unlimited curiosity and continues to explore new crafts to express herself. Since 2021 she has begun an exploration of ceramics.
Millad Khonsorkh is a British-Iranian filmmaker, animator and multidisciplinary artist based in Lisbon. Working across moving image, hand-drawn animation, documentary and socially engaged practice, his work explores memory, childhood, migration, political imagination and the ways images shape our understanding of identity and belonging.
His recent projects include *Azadi TV*, a fictional television broadcast built from fragments of Iranian childhood and archival media, and *Transparent*, a commission with Animate Projects and the Open Data Institute exploring data, consent and the limits of transparency. His animation practice often combines drawing, sound, testimony and documentary material.
Alongside his studio practice, Millad develops participatory animation and filmmaking projects with communities. He is a core collaborator with Science on the Walls in Lisbon, where he creates workshops bringing together art, science and collective storytelling.
Nicole Uche Gladzinski is a German visual artist based in Lisbon, with roots in the Canary Islands. Working in mixed media on canvas and raw cotton, she builds vivid, layered abstract paintings through acrylics, oil pastels, ink, pencil, and thread, each material adding to the next until the final piece is formed.
Her practice is rooted in a question she keeps returning to: what does it mean for a woman to be truly herself in a patriarchal world? Her ongoing series Becoming, which was part of her first solo exhibition in April 2026, treats identity not as something to complete, but as a continuous, unfolding state of being alive.
Rory is a photographer based in Lisbon working mostly with documentary and portraiture. Always with his camera in hand, which he sees as an extension of himself.
His aim is to document life as it is: people, their behaviour, their environment and their creations with the aim to help people understand and learn from how we live.
Working with analogue photography and predominantly on the streets of Lisbon, he captures life in its raw, unfiltered state. Freezing moments of this confusing and forever changing world so they cannot be forgotten.
Tanya Fryer is an artist and textile designer working across painting and textiles. Her practice explores landscape as a pathway into the inner world, considering identity, memory, attention and our relationship with place.
Working between plein air studies and the studio, Fryer develops compositions through the addition and reduction of colour, texture, light and form. Trees, horizons, rivers and coastlines become starting points for exploring the layered nature of experience and identity.
Her work moves between observation and intuition, creating spaces for reflection and a renewed connection with the landscapes around us.