Nuno Sousa Vieira
Desisto – o que não vejo imagino
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Elemento 1: duplo vivo, 2026
Oil on linen, 90,5 x 49,5 x 3 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Manifesto para uma ação imaginada, ou, como desobedecer ao visível, 2025
Offset printing on graph paper, 45 x 32 cm, Edition of 150
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Passada e meia na escuridão – (Sem Sol), 2026
Oil on linen, mahogany wood and metal fittings
124 cm Ø x 45 cm (the size of the work is equivalent to one and a half of the artist’s steps)
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Declamador - O Artista Sombra, 2025
Oil on plywood, oil and digital print on linen and cotton thread, 184 x 62 x 112 cm | 14 x 89,5 x 20 cm
Declamador - O Artista Sombra, 2025 (detail)
Oil on plywood, oil and digital print on linen and cotton thread, 184 x 62 x 112 cm | 14 x 89,5 x 20 cm
Elemento 2: objeto caído, 2026
Oil on linen, 112 x 102 x 3 cm
Mais alto que a luz – (O Transgressor do Visível), 2024
Video, colour and sound, 5’56’’, Edition of 3
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Elemento 1: duplo vivo, 2026
Oil on linen, 90,5 x 49,5 x 3 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Parede-Abrigo – (O Espaço-Não-Neutro), 2026 (detail)
Oil on plywood, peephole, slide (29 elements), 185 x 390 x 118 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Manifesto para uma ação imaginada, ou, como desobedecer ao visível, 2025
Offset printing on graph paper, 45 x 32 cm, Edition of 150
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
O Corpo-Ferida, 2026
Oil on linen and cotton thread, 40 x 32 cm
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Passada e meia na escuridão – (Sem Sol), 2026
Oil on linen, mahogany wood and metal fittings
124 cm Ø x 45 cm (the size of the work is equivalent to one and a half of the artist’s steps)
Exhibition view. Photo: Bruno Lopes
Declamador - O Artista Sombra, 2025
Oil on plywood, oil and digital print on linen and cotton thread, 184 x 62 x 112 cm | 14 x 89,5 x 20 cm
Declamador - O Artista Sombra, 2025 (detail)
Oil on plywood, oil and digital print on linen and cotton thread, 184 x 62 x 112 cm | 14 x 89,5 x 20 cm
Elemento 2: objeto caído, 2026
Oil on linen, 112 x 102 x 3 cm
Mais alto que a luz – (O Transgressor do Visível), 2024
Video, colour and sound, 5’56’’, Edition of 3
3+1 Arte Contemporânea is pleased to announce Desisto – o que não vejo imagino (I give up – what I can’t see I imagine), the latest solo exhibition by Nuno Sousa Vieira (Leiria, 1971) at the gallery.
Nuno Sousa Vieira’s practice is influenced by the artist’s workspace, where the materials, colours and motifs that surround him often become integral part of the artworks. His works combine the research about fundamental questions of the artistic practice, such as shape, volume, spatiality and layering, with intellectual concerns related to contemporary and art history.
In Desisto – o que não vejo imagino, Sousa Vieira establishes a parallelism between the beginning of the 20th century, when the art vanguards dictated the abandonment of figuration in favour of abstraction, with the moment we currently live. The abundance of images and information that surrounds us daily is exacerbated by the growing use of artificial intelligence, which allows anyone to imitate and even make up reality. An abstract language becomes, then, increasingly more important as an answer to this excess of reality (often constructed but seen as true). And just like in the 20th century, this answer is a political act.
Thus, the title of the exhibition implies a refusal to go along with the mechanisms that actively harm the imagination and critical thinking. Desisto (I give up) functions as a scream, a catharsis, the announcement of a decisive action, but not a surrender. Instead, it is an act of resistance that is explained in the second half of the title: the visual is not mandatory, the imaginary does not need to stop being so. More than one hundred years after the stir cause by Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, in its total absence of figuration and narrative, Sousa Vieira reminds us that painting is a place of happenings, and the artist should have something to say with their works.
15.05.26 → 12.09.26
Opening 15.05.26, 18h – 21h
Happening with the artist 04.07.26, 15h – 16h