Emerging from Corentin Spear’s ongoing blue monochrome series, this edition reflects on solidarity, resilience, and the representation of femininity as a space of strength rather than fragility. Centered on two female figures positioned back to back, the work evokes a gesture of mutual protection — a quiet alliance formed in response to an environment marked by tension and hostility.

Through blurred features and monochromatic tones, the composition moves beyond individual portraiture toward a more collective presence, where identity becomes shared experience. Floral and luminous elements unfold across the surface, introducing moments of softness and hope within the intensity of the scene. Balancing emotional charge with restraint, the work affirms the female body not as an object of projection, but as a site of endurance, support, and resistance.

Emerging from BIGOD’s exploration of vernacular culture and overlooked forms of labor, this edition reflects on the circulation of images and their role in shaping collective memory. Drawing on the figure of the street newspaper seller, the work positions artistic creation as an act of distribution: something that moves, repeats, and carries urgency.

Built through layered fragments and graphic rhythms, the composition evokes processes of print and reproduction, where images accumulate and transform over time. Balancing manual gesture with industrial reference, the work establishes a dialogue between past and present, translating a street-based visual language into a form that can be held, shared, and preserved.

Exploring themes of love, trust, and emotional vulnerability, D*Face makes use of the unique spatial context of the mural to bring narrative to the artwork. Familiar figures appear in moments of intimacy and reflection, inviting viewers to consider how relationships shape our sense of direction.

The imagery plays with contrast: softness and strength, affection and fragility, permanence and impermanence. Rather than presenting conflict between these opposites, the work focuses on the human experience of connection and the risks we willingly take in opening ourselves to others. Installed on either side of the bridge – an architectural symbol of passage – the mural mirrors the transitions we experience in relationships and in life.

EXIsT unfolds from João Fortuna’s investigation into the condition of the individual within cycles of acceleration and repetition. Composed through a vocabulary of fragmented visual codes, the work reflects a state where existence becomes mechanical, reduced to sequences of inputs and outputs, gestures and routines. Suspended between awareness and automatism, the piece traces a closed loop where meaning dissolves into repetition. Within this tension, between staying and escaping, permanence and rupture, EXIsT captures the fragile threshold where consciousness resists being absorbed into the system.

Emerging from Amanda Lobo’s visual universe, this edition reflects on the construction of the self as both exposed and protected. Figures take shape through layers of detail and ornament, forming a kind of external armor: a surface that both conceals and safeguards an inner core. Drawing from her language of fantasy and exaggeration, the work transforms vulnerability into structure, where decoration becomes defense, and identity is held in tension between what is shown and what is kept intact.