TIMOR-LESTE

The exhibition, created by artists from different generations, takes shape from the linguistic plurality of Timor-Leste, where ancestral idioms and current languages, such as English and Indonesian, coexist within a complex ecosystem. At the center of the exhibition is the textile Tais Don which translates historical memory into material testimony, bearing the names of the victims of the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre. The surrounding audiovisual installations develop a reflection on language as a space of identity, transmission, and collective construction, offering an image of a culture that finds its cohesion in multiplicity.

Featured image: Juventino Madeira, FRAZE NE’EBE SEIDAUK HOTU (An Unfinished Sentence), 2025–26