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→ INTERMÉDIOS - WINDOW
WINDOW (JANELA) is the next publication in a series of collective visual essays, INTERMÉDIOS, with no pre-defined order, dedicated to the theme of re-use of salvaged building components.
The WINDOW, an element that frequently repeats within a wall, is a complex regulatory system filtering light, landscape, climate, sound, matter, and the body. When one of its components is removed, in response to an attributed obsolescence, the functioning of the system is compromised.
Throughout the investigation of the WINDOW, we observed this movement: the breaking down of the system into its components and the consequent rupture of the link with the geometric, functional, and symbolic parameters that determined it. We followed the trajectories of each of the components (discarding, safeguarding, storage, maintenance, and re-use) and identified applications that expand these parameters: disassemblies and deformations, deviations and repurposings, resignifications and revaluations.
As a provocation, this essay counters the dispersive movement we observed and reconstructs the WINDOW system in a sequence that symbolically orders its components, from exterior to interior: GRILLE >> WINDOW SURROUND >> ROLLER SHUTTER >> WINDOW LEAF >> SHUTTER PANEL. For each one, it presents examples of re-use scattered throughout Portugal.
In the exhibition, the printed format expands and gives physical form to the material research. From the progressive discovery of sites and discarded components, we present representations of these in their places of origin or storage, elements arranged in a process of intervention, transition and transformation, and new compositions.
We also share the process by integrating the research archive into the exhibition — content from the publication in audiovisual form, elements from the publication's production, and records of the exhibition's installation.
In reconstructing the WINDOW, we challenge participants and readers to imagine what each component might yet become.
Dates:
Exhibition 23/10/2026-24/01/2027, Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea Santo Tirso, Portugal
- exhibition opening 23/10/2026 19h00
- publication launch 5/12/2026 19h00 (to be confirmed)
Data:
2026
Series:
INTERMÉDIOS
Title:
JANELA/WINDOW
Edition:
NADA
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Cláudia Escaleira e Jonny Pugh (coordination), Jérémy Pernet e Clara Vale
Collaboration:
Vitória Carvalho e Ana Alvanéo
Translation:
Jonny Pugh
Graphic Design:
Joana & Mariana
Print:
Gráfica Maiadouro©2026
Support:
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Clara Vale); No Entulho, Artworks; Porto Vivo, SRU, Costa Almeida Ambiente; Pedras ao Tempo
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Jonny Pugh e Cláudia Escaleira (artistic co-direction), João Martins, Rodrigo Pereira, Clara Vale e Jérémy Pernet
Collaboration:
Vitória Carvalho e Ana Alvanéo
Graphic Design:
Joana & Mariana
Screen printing artistic coordination:
Joana Paradinha
Support:
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Clara Vale); No Entulho, Artworks; Porto Vivo, SRU.
Costa Almeida Ambiente; Pedras ao Tempo