"Which processes of experimentation arise in these works? Let us risk synthesizing the diversity of the practised procedures in a single word: rehearse. The chosen word has several senses, immediate significant resonances: to fantasize (as an act of specific imagination that mixes the interior with the exterior), to costume (in a kind of cosplay), to experience (in the double sense of trying: testing, as doing experiments, and also savouring, as in wine tasting), staging (playing with and making her colourful "toys", and also in the sense of producing objects and images, objects-images for a scene as if they were stage props) ... We enumerated already several senses of this "rehearsal", we lack others, but above all, we lack the most stressed sense: to try (...).
Here, to try is an artistic procedure and an existential gesture. It is an action forever provisional, sometimes even improvised, using what’s available at the time and in that place, markedly contingent, and rejecting the whole idea but also the full weight of any definitive and final solution. Trying is also a particular learning process - practical and existential."

FERNANDO POEIRAS AND JÚLIO SILVA
Excerpt from the text of the exhibition