Rita Borralho Silva (b.2000, Lisbon) is an Amsterdam-based performance artist, exploring the tension between tradition and transformation.

Raised in post-revolutionary Portugal, her work channels political urgency with the body as resistance.

amateur dancer who loves chanting and storytelling, Rita brings an inherently personal and embodied urgency to her practice:

“I am Body. Poetic, political and always, feminist”

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Dolores Mallea runs a small practice based in Buenos Aires called SUR DEL CRUZ. 

Born from the desire to be able to build what they were designing, it is a continuous personal search between profession and craft, which counts on the accompanying team, collaborations from colleague studios, and constant training.

The studio is strongly influenced by the shared history of southern America as a plurinational region, as well as in the intuitive construction of everyday domestic and work furniture and its particular aesthetics.

Loli is also part of Taller 475, a woodshop located in a local penitentiary for young men.

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Adriana Jaroslavsky is an artist from Caracas, Venezuela with a fresh MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Adriana works closely with installation, and materials in tension, things that breathe, resist, sag, or hover. Her practice moves through the spaces between structure and softness, logic and dream, the seen and the felt. She is drawn to failed systems, ghost architectures, and internal landscapes that never fully settle.

Process is a collaborator: Adriana listens to the materials, let them misbehave, shift, and reveal.

Her work often lives in a suspended state, unfinished, ambiguous, gently alert. I’m interested in that shimmer just after waking, when everything is familiar but strange. A moment held, not named.

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aaron inker is a visual artist, educator, and cultural practitioner. He works with diverse media and socially engaged art to develop practices and experiences related to creative ecologies, exploring the relationships between human and ‘otherness’ at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

He is a co-founder of Spazio Hydro, an independent cultural centre in Biella (Italy), active in the development of new forms of cultural experience and co-curator of the public program Fluviale, a research path on water bodies dedicated to the investigation of the human-non-human relationship and the nature-culture dialectic.

Read “Futurepunk: From Artistic Laboratory to Solarpunk Realism” here. (english version)

Read “Futurepunk: From Artistic Laboratory to Solarpunk Realism” here. (portuguese version)

Emory Hall is an artist exploring the relationships between myth, health and toxicity. Through bioplastic material studies and welding, process shapes a language of decay. The visualization of time gives way towards a vision of escapism amidst a synthetic reality. Lives and works in Los Angeles (b. 1993 in Kansas City.) A recent graduate of CalArts Art and Technology MFA, she has exhibited as a resident of Espace Triphasè (Brussels, BE) and Reisig & Taylor Contemporary. A former chef at Oxbow School of Art and Artist’s Residency (Saugatuck, MI) her work often incorporates performative dinners and draws from a background of food styling and cooking in restaurants.

Read here.

In February 2024, a group of nine artists who had not met before took part in the international residency at PADA. Besides their individual projects and the collective exhibition, something else came out of this cohort. Collected Notes is about the experience of living and working together at PADA. It was deliberately thought to be printed and pinned in the notice board of the communal kitchen in the studios, so any other artists that would come after them could read it over a drink or a meal. For the sake of preserving this well read and used pages and to share it with even more artists, we now publish a scanned version of the document. PADA 43 is Fiona Campbell (UK), Ellie Foreman-Peck (UK), Joshua Challen Ice (US), Makiko Harris (US), Esther van der Heijden (NL), Mia Carl (DK), Bas Ruis (NL), Camilo Parra (CO) and Michelle Favin (US).

Check the original file here.

Translated Version (PT-PT)