Emerging from Joram Roukes’ ongoing exploration of identity and the symbols that shape contemporary culture, Blue Bull reflects on the evolving perceptions of masculinity through a dialogue between three protagonists: a blue bull, a red doberman, and a solitary perch. Suspended within a composition that resists fixed orientation, the figures invite multiple readings, suggesting that ideas of strength, vulnerability, and power are never absolute, but continuously shaped by perspective.

Characteristic of Roukes' practice, disparate images, cultural references, and symbolic elements are brought together into layered compositions that remain open to multiple interpretations. Working across painting, collage, and digital processes, the artist constructs richly textured visual worlds where familiar forms are continually recontextualised. For this edition, the original composition has been reworked through a transformed background, screen-printed interventions, and hand-finished details, allowing the dialogue between the three protagonists to come into sharper focus.

Emerging from Matthew Stone's ongoing exploration of layered realities, this work brings together movement, colour, and gestural forms into a composition where multiple visual and emotional dimensions coexist. Surfaces overlap, painted marks create shifting depths, while material and simulated spaces dissolve into one another, reflecting the complexity of contemporary experience.

Characteristic of Stone's practice, the digital and the physical are not positioned in opposition, but exist as complementary layers within the same pictorial language. Image, gesture, surface, and presence continuously intersect, creating a visual field where complexity gives way to moments of stillness and connection. Balancing movement with quiet contemplation, the work reflects on how, within an increasingly layered world, new ways of being fully human can continue to emerge.

Emerging from Saman & Sasan Oskouei’s ongoing exploration of nature and its relationship to human systems, Harvestcenters on a single wheat stalk, broken into two. A symbol of nourishment and abundance, the wheat becomes here an image of interruption, something essential separated from its source, bringing into focus the fragile relationship between food, labour, and survival.

Characteristic of the artists’ recent practice, a restrained material gesture opens onto broader environmental and social questions. Cast into handmade paper, the broken stalk leaves behind a delicate imprint, suspended between presence and absence, resilience and vulnerability. Through this tension, Harvest reflects on the systems and natural cycles that sustain life, and on how easily what we depend upon, and often take for granted, can become precarious.

Underdogs celebrates the 25th of April with the launch of a special series of editions by seven Portuguese artists who, although they did not experience the revolution firsthand, grew up with its legacy deeply embedded in the fabric of society. This year marks 51 years since the Carnation Revolution — a historical moment that ended decades of dictatorship and restored democracy in Portugal. The works emerged from an invitation by Underdogs to engage in a dialogue with iconic photographs by Alfredo Cunha — one of Portugal’s most important photojournalists. With a sharp and sensitive eye, Cunha captured defining moments of April 25, 1974, immortalising expressions of freedom, confrontation, silence, and hope.

Each artist was invited to choose, reflect on, and respond to one of these images, inviting viewers to step into a portal through time and offering a new, personal reading of the past. Originally presented in the exhibition Portais do Tempo, held at the former Lisnave shipyards in Almada in 2023, these powerful works are now being relaunched as limited editions — produced in the same format and with identical margins. Each edition will be sold at the same price, making them accessible to a wider audience and reaffirming the importance of keeping alive the reflection on what freedom means, and what it continues to mean, today.

Pedro Gramaxo reinterprets one of Alfredo Cunha’s most subtle yet striking images — a close-up of two soldiers’ helmets reflecting the light. Fascinated by this interplay between form, symbolism, and atmosphere, Gramaxo creates his own photographic response: a composition captured in the landscape of Grândola, a place forever linked to the revolution through the song Grândola, Vila Morena. In his image, two illuminated forms emerge from the darkness, suggesting portals to an imagined future. As in Cunha’s original, light becomes both subject and metaphor.

Born from this unprecedented collaboration, the project stands as a heartfelt tribute to the women of rural Portugal and the stories that shaped the country. The editions originate from a monumental concrete portrait evoking the internal migrations of the twentieth century, an image of resilience, labour, and transformation. 

Developed on industrial canvas, each piece begins with Vhils’ screen-printed foundation and is completed with Joana Vasconcelos’ meticulous handcrafted interventions. The Normal Editions feature feather compositions, while the Artist’s Proofs combine feathers with embroidered elements. Though rooted in the same 100 × 140 cm image, every work is entirely unique, a meeting of subtraction and addition that yields endless possibilities.