Vhils Presented by Eterno

Eterno presented two bodies of work by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils: Ignition and Rust Belt.

Both series work through the same logic: destruction as a way of making something visible. Carving, explosions, erosion. Faces appear from the material itself, suspended between disappearance and revelation. The repetition of the same image across the series introduces a cyclical sense of time, where destruction is not a singular event but a continuous process of exposure and reconstruction.

Showing Vhils at the Unicorn Factory, a building whose own walls carry the memory of industrial labor and transformation, was not incidental. ETERNO is a Lisbon-based gallery that is located 5 minutes away from the exhibition site.