Emerging from Raquel Belli's ongoing exploration of perception, identity, and the spaces between certainty and ambiguity, Mirror-Mirror reflects on the ways images are constructed, fragmented, and reassembled. Through a woven visual structure that simultaneously reveals and obscures the portrait, the work resists a fixed reading, inviting the viewer to inhabit the shifting space between recognition and abstraction.

Characteristic of Belli's practice, photography is transformed through processes of weaving and reconstruction, where the image becomes both object and illusion. In this series, the artist also incorporates artificial intelligence into her creative process for the first time, introducing a new layer of mediation between the photographed subject and its material transformation. The dialogue between digital generation and handcrafted intervention blurs the boundaries between reality and simulation, allowing multiple perspectives to coexist within a single image. Balancing technology with materiality, Mirror-Mirror reflects on identity as something continuously constructed, negotiated, and reimagined.

Emerging from Shepard Fairey’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between power, protest, and peace, AR-15 Lily Portugal reinterprets one of the artist’s most enduring visual motifs: a firearm transformed into a vessel for a blooming flower. Created for Portugal, the work echoes the symbolic legacy of the Carnation Revolution, where flowers became an emblem of peaceful resistance and democratic change.

Characteristic of Fairey’s practice, graphic clarity and bold iconography are employed to communicate complex political ideas through universally recognisable symbols. By juxtaposing the AR-15 rifle with a lily in full bloom, the work confronts the tension between violence and hope, destruction and renewal. Balancing the visual language of propaganda with a message of optimism, AR-15 Lily Portugal reflects on the enduring possibility of replacing conflict with dialogue and transforming symbols of division into expressions of collective resilience.

Emerging from ±MaisMenos±’s ongoing investigation into value, consumption, and the contradictions of contemporary society, this edition transforms a familiar expression into a conceptual paradox. Through a subtle linguistic intervention, the work reverses the promise traditionally associated with wealth, replacing certainty with ambiguity.

Characteristic of the artist’s practice, language becomes both medium and subject. The statement can be read simultaneously as a critique of consumer culture and as a reflection on the commodification of absence itself — a recurring theme throughout ±MaisMenos±’s work, where even “nothing” can become a product, an image, or an object of exchange. Balancing irony with social commentary, the piece questions the systems of value through which meaning is produced, circulated, and consumed.