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.

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.

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.