The World Is Our House | Workshop
Inhabit the Contradiction, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
O Mundo é a Nossa Casa (The World Is Our House) is a participatory project developed by artist Carlos Bunga based on his exhibition Inhabit the Contradiction with young people aged between 11 and 20 from the Zambujal neighbourhood in Alfragide, Amadora, who are part of the Percursos Acompanhados E9G programme, promoted by CooperActiva – Cooperativa de Desenvolvimento Social.
In this project, which expands the collaborative space for collective construction in places of education, mediation, and artistic creation, we start from the power of art to think about the world as we know it.
Between education and artistic practice, the experience was constructed as a space for amplifying the concerns, desires, and questions that resonate within those growing up in a world that is simultaneously promising and fractured.
This exhibition originates from one of Bunga’s surreal drawings: My First House Was a Woman, 1975 (2018). It depicts a pregnant figure with a house for a head, limbs rendered as both human and animal-like, and a colonial-era stamp crossing the torso. Referencing his mother’s abrupt passage from Angola to Portugal, the artwork is a personal point of departure. Like life itself, the exhibition expands outward into a multifaceted experience shaped by remembrance, change, and the convergences of home, body, mind, and universe.
2026. Lisbon, Portugal.
Exhibition. Inhabit the Contradiction
