entre | tempo, a solo exhibition by Teresa Sanches de Baêna

🗓 28 March – 17 April
Opening: Saturday, 28 March, 6–8 pm

In entre | tempo, Teresa Sanches de Baêna treats the exhibition space less as a container than as a psychological chamber: a place of waiting, where time loosens and memory begins to behave strangely. The room feels like an extension of an interior landscape, holding fragments of childhood, half-formed narratives, and gestures repeated until they sediment into traces of lived experience.

Her practice moves along the fault line between inside and outside. The boundary between what happened and what was feared, desired, or projected becomes porous.

Underlying the work is the residue of a moral framework built on stark oppositions: good and evil, reward and punishment… Such binaries, amplified by the archetypes of popular animation from the 1980s and 1990s, offer clear scripts for how to be. Identity, within this structure, is measured against expectation; the self is split between what it is and what it has been told it should become. The tension is quiet but persistent.

Against this, the slower temporalities found in anime and manga suggest another rhythm. Here, conflict turns inward. Time stretches. Ambiguity is not corrected but endured. Silence carries weight; doubt becomes generative. It is within this shift that entre | tempo locates its force, opening a space where perception falters, recalibrates, and perhaps begins again.

Teresa Sanches de Baêna (Lisbon, 1987) trained as an architect, graduating from Lusíada University in Lisbon, and later studied Management at NOVA SBE. During her architectural studies, she also attended the Painting and Drawing course at Ar.Co – Centre for Art and Visual Communication. In the early years of her professional career, she participated in several international competitions for young architects. She was named a TOP Finalist by Archmedium for her project The Camelot Research & Visitors Centre, and was awarded 2nd place in the Physical Activity and Health (DSBG) competition at the University of Basel, in collaboration with the Promontorio studio. In 2023, she was selected for the Artistic Residency at A Base school in Lisbon, where she remained until 2025, developing her artistic practice alongside her work in architecture and UX consulting.

In partnership with A Base