Every year, the António Arroio Art School develops partnership projects with cultural institutions as part of its Work-Based Learning programme. This academic year, the Gulbenkian Foundation embraced the challenge, working with students specialising in Printmaking | Screen Printing on the Artistic Production Course.

The students were invited to create publications that suggest connections between the buildings, the Collections, and the Garden, drawing inspiration from the many poetic and aesthetic relationships these apparent boundary areas might evoke.

The exhibition marks the conclusion of a months-long journey of discovery through the diverse realms within the Gulbenkian Foundation, later translated into each student’s aesthetic universe through the techniques of screen printing and engraving. The works presented here showcase 20 poetic and graphic interpretations of the relationships, interstices, and dialogues developed by the students.

Each publication invites us to explore these threshold spaces – between light and shadow, between architecture, artworks, books, and nature.