Developed within the context of The Studio project at Underdogs Gallery, this edition was hand-finished by Rita João during her week-long residency.

Originally conceived as a glimpse into Pedrita Studio’s archive of discarded digital matrices, Mimixa 003.jpg reflects an interest in process, testing, and unexpected visual outcomes generated through experimentation and technical constraints. During the residency, the artist expanded this logic through direct manual interventions, introducing unique watercolour elements to each individual print.

Created in parallel with a new body of works on paper, the edition reflects the more immediate and open approach explored throughout the residency, where gesture, variation, and spontaneity became central to the creative process. As a result, each edition is unique.

Rita João co-founded, with Pedro Ferreira, the multidisciplinary design studio Pedrita Studio, based in Lisbon since 2005. The studio’s practice includes art direction, spatial design, conceptual art installations, NFTs, and tile panels. These panels, abstract compositions of color and texture that combine discontinued Portuguese tiles from the 1960s onwards, express the studio’s strong connection to tile-making and its ability to transform memories of the past into a contemporary language.

Rita João studied Design in Lisbon and in Delft. She began her professional career in 2002 in the 3D department of Fabrica, the communication research center of the Benetton group. She is co-author of the book Fabrico Próprio – o design da pastelaria semi-industrial portuguesa. Between 2015 and 2018, she taught Spatial Design at ESAD Caldas da Rainha and is currently a lecturer in the Design degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.

Developed within the context of The Studio project at Underdogs Gallery, Nothing to Hide was hand-finished by Nuno Viegas during his residency.

Created alongside a new series of graphite and cyanotype works, the edition reflects the artist’s exploration of material transformation, controlled exposure, and gradual image construction. Extending this process into the risograph print, each edition was completed through the addition of a hand-applied golden crown.

Rooted in a practice informed by graffiti and its raw visual language, the work balances immediacy with precision, translating the tension between spontaneity and control into a single composition.

Nuno Viegas, also known as Metis, is a Portuguese visual artist based in Quarteira - Algarve. His practice is deeply rooted in graffiti culture, spanning painting, public interventions and large-scale murals. His work explores the tension between the raw energy of traditional graffiti and its refined, controlled representation in studio practice. After studying Visual Arts at the University of Algarve, he lived in Rotterdam, where he further developed his artistic language. His work has since been presented internationally in galleries, institutions and urban art contexts, collaborating with platforms such as Urban Nation (Berlin), Thinkspace Gallery (Los Angeles), and Yasha Young Projects. Nuno Viegas maintains an ongoing collaboration with Underdogs, which includes exhibitions, editions and public art interventions.

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.