hybrid fragments++

5 > 13 NOVEMBER 2025 I GALLERY

Hybrid Fragments ++

The exhibition Hybrid Fragments++ builds on and continues the previous exhibition Hybrid Fragments, which emerged from hybrid materiality practices and artistic processes developed within CAPHE project – Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment – and which have been extrapolated to adjacent scenarios. It seeks to explore the speculative potential of the fragment as an operative concept in the arts and as a resource for training in artistic research in higher education. Based on the idea that a portion of something can be reborn and recreate any other ‘thing,’ the exhibition proposes experimental situations that articulate different material bodies in the continuum of reality-virtuality. This process aims to promote dialogue between subjects and materials, which can also be subjects. The resulting experiences pave the way for new approaches in arts education, especially about artistic research and its potential for knowledge transfer.

Inspired by the notion of tesserae in literary criticism (Bloom, 1973) and the concept of constellation as a dynamic creative process (Elias, 2019) that recovers the complexity, meaning and autonomy of the fragment (Perienes 2010), Hybrid Fragments expands the concept of ‘nomadic fragment’ proposed by Elias, Mendes, Ângelo and Lucas (2024). Through a selection of images and objects by various artists, the exhibition presents fragments that sometimes manifest themselves as documents, sometimes reconfiguring themselves as surviving images (Didi-Huberman), emerging in new materialities and digital environments that maintain the latency of their previous appearances. In these compositions, the works embody different temporalities and material stages, collapsing visual planes that evoke both Bennet’s vibrant matter, Haraway’s situated knowledge, and Braidotti’s nomadic subject. 

In a progression of textures, spaces and hybrid materializations, the exhibition is an invitation to immersion through multisensory experiences, from the technologies of sculpture, drawing, photography and design to fragments from multiple sources to content in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and 3D digital printing. 

In particular, the exhibition shows the artistic research and arts education work carried out by FBAUL art teachers and students in collaboration with other members and students of the CAPHE project within the scope of the proposed activities, including documentary content produced during the mobility programs.