In ‘City around the City’, Tristany reflects on identity, territory, and artistic creation beyond conventional urban centres. Drawing from his experience of living in the Sintra Line, the artist challenges the term ‘periphery’, proposing instead a new cultural centrality.

Through seven wearable flags and an audiovisual narrative divided into three videos, the project highlights the symbolic, emotional, and social richness of a region often rendered invisible. Tristany emphasises that, despite a lack of formal cultural infrastructures, the Sintra Line is one of the most prolific hubs of contemporary cultural production in Portugal, particularly in music.

The work celebrates the ‘right to imagination’ and calls for new representations of these territories. By wearing flags, the artist explores what it means to embody an identity or a place. This installation stands as both a visual and political affirmation of the Sintra Line as a place of creative power.