As part of the 3rd edition of the VNBM EM FESTA!’25 programme, the contemporary art gallery Venha a Nós a Boa Morte opens Diana Policarpo’s exhibition Cynara Complex on 11 October.

The exhibition explores the connection between human and plant life, ecological resilience, and the sedimented traces of labour and excessive extraction from the earth. The works unfold among thorny, imposing thistles, absorbing radioactive soils and the stories embedded within them by those who worked there.