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Everlasting Worlds, 2025
In a time where planetary anxieties echo through data streams and digital ruins, Everlasting Worlds invites us into a suspended space—somewhere between memory and imagination, extinction and emergence, fossil and fiction. Through the works of Carola Bonfili, Simon Goritschnig, Robertina Šebjanič and Gil Ferrão, this exhibition becomes an immersive excavation into worlds past, future, and parallel. These are not merely imagined environments, but psychological, ecological and mythopoetic ecosystems shaped by the interplay of analog and digital gestures. Each artist, in their own way, engages in world-building—not as escapism, but as a method of storytelling, a practice of critique, and an archaeology of what was, what is, and what could be.
Simon Goritschnig works at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, and speculative anthropology. His series Excavations from Unknown Origins offers graphite rubbings of imaginary artefacts: cross-sections of unknown life forms, fossilized mutations, alien anatomies. The aesthetic draws from both prehistoric cave art and scientific diagrams, suggesting a fictional evolution beyond the human. His Alien Artefacts, printed in biodegradable filament, evoke biological relics from post-human futures: mollusk-like exoskeletons, hybrid organisms, or synthetic fossils. Goritschnig reflects on the collapse of the Earth and the ambiguous hope of space colonization. His artistic language does not separate the analog from the digital, the ancient from the futuristic; rather, it insists that cave painting and VR are part of the same continuum. The artist is working through an archaeology of the future—a reflection of our age in which the spiritual, the speculative, and the scientific interlace.
Essay by Marie du Chastel
Artemis Gallery
Rua de D. Estefânia, 21 A / 21 B
1000-153 Lisbon
Everalsting Worlds
28 March – 29 June 2025
Curated by Manuel S.Mendonça & Diogo Gonçalves
With Carola Bonfili | Robertina Šebjanič | Gil Ferrão
Photo Documentation by Jorge Silva
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