Formas sónicas das plantas

The Escola de Desenho Inconvencional proposes a series of moments – like radio stations – where we record the auditory nature of the Crystal Palace Gardens. In each place, we’ll create a moment of capture: the sound is extracted and transferred to images scratched on paper, or digitally, as sonic waves.

Art, science and technology are the branches of this ping! workshop, which we want to bring out different sensations. Let’s feel, touch and draw the sound of the plant beings that grow and expand endlessly in these gardens…

In a variety of ways, we’ll think about drawing and listening far beyond what we learn at school, bringing new perspectives on the plant world, full of sensitive and communicative beings.

Miguel Ângelo was born in Guimarães in 1994. An ever-expanding visual artist, he completed his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design (2023) and his Bachelor’s degree at the same school (2016). He founded the Escola de Desenho Inconvencional in 2020 and since then has worked on art education and art liberation projects with schools, institutions and associations.

Since 2021, he has been part of the Coletivo PALMA together with Catarina Braga, an artistic project focused on ecological issues.

In his paintings and drawings, he works with archival sources, fiction and memory, looking for compositions that rewrite canonical images to imagine another subject. These themes are represented in a rich color palette, with an attention to light and space that gives the work a psychological depth and narrative.