BRINCAR com letras grandes("PLAYING in big letters") is a visually vibrant and provocative composition that delves into the ambiguity between playfulness and truth, lightness and emotional manipulation. The work confronts the viewer with a saturated visual universe - filled with childhood references, fragmented objects, and clashing textures - orchestrated within an intentional chaos.At the heart of this whirlwind lies a subtle yet loaded question: “Plena mente?” (a wordplay in Portuguese suggesting both “fully conscious” and “full of lies”). The phrase operates as both riddle and critique, questioning the social habit of saying something honest in the form of a joke - only to quickly retreat behind the phrase “just kidding” when vulnerability is exposed. A gesture that simultaneously reveals and denies.The painting becomes a reflection on dishonesty wrapped in playfulness, where a playful aesthetic is used to camouflage deeper emotional tensions.  Visual elements like cherries, childlike patterns, and abrupt cutouts serve as metaphors for the desire to express honesty. “BRINCAR com letras grandes” refuses the superficiality of joking and invites a reflection on the courage it takes to stand by the truth - even when it arrives masked as laughter.

Betweenevilandfun, Diogo Potes, a graphic designer and creative director based in Lisbon, creates monsters that don’t really want to scare. His figures live in an ambiguous space — chaotic, colourful, intense — where the grotesque is softened by vibrant palettes and a sense of humour. Influenced by punk rock and 1990s skateboard graphics, these creatures with bulging eyes and sharp teeth inherit the anarchic spirit of that era, yet reject the narrative of fear. The result is a playful and provocative visual tension — monstrous, but never hostile.

This edition emerged from Layers, a generative NFT project that invited collectors to shape their own artwork by choosing how many visual layers to reveal. Built from photographs of torn urban posters, each composition was generated algorithmically and then printed on velvet paper, merging digital authorship with physical craft. It reflects the exhibition’s central idea of Threshold— a transition between the virtual and the tangible, and between observation and participation.

This Collector Kit was created in connection with Layers, a generative NFT project by Vhils that invited participants to co-create by choosing how many visual layers to reveal. Inspired by the project's themes — transformation, participation, and materiality — each item in the kit reflects the tension between the digital and the physical.

Each piece in the Shred Edition was created from real street posters — fragments of the city’s surface collected and transformed through Vhils’ process of carving and controlled removal. These works embody the project’s core tension between destruction and creation, presence and erasure. They echo the visual language of Threshold, turning detritus into testimony and collapse into continuity — where what’s usually discarded becomes a site of reflection.

This edition emerged from Layers, a generative NFT project that invited collectors to shape their own artwork by choosing how many visual layers to reveal. Built from photographs of torn urban posters, each composition was generated algorithmically and then printed on velvet paper, merging digital authorship with physical craft. It reflects the exhibition’s central idea of Threshold— a transition between the virtual and the tangible, and between observation and participation.

This edition emerged from Layers, a generative NFT project that invited collectors to shape their own artwork by choosing how many visual layers to reveal. Built from photographs of torn urban posters, each composition was generated algorithmically and then printed on velvet paper, merging digital authorship with physical craft. It reflects the exhibition’s central idea of Threshold— a transition between the virtual and the tangible, and between observation and participation.