Forest of Metal Whispers

Mauro Ventura

Forest of metal whispers looked at spirituality as a symbolic pathway for imagining different worlds, while engaging with visible and invisible entities to demonstrate how we tend to demonise things. The exhibition followed a narrative in which shape-shifting figures serve as portals to bridge the past, present and future. While the presence of magical figures and creatures in previous eras is ascribed an evil character, Mauro Ventura offers a contemporary perspective on witchcraft, alchemy, and spirituality by reframing these characters in a way that embraces trans-humanist values and resists traditional power structures.

25 March –26 May 2022, GDS Warehouse, Braga, Portugal

(All images courtesy of the gallery and artists)