Palácio de Biester, SintraCuradoria: Ana Carolina Villanueva — November & December 2025
LUKA ART GALLERY
At Luka Art Gallery, within the historic setting of Palácio de Biester, Sintra, Craft Gardens presented a curated exhibition bringing together the work Blossom Gardénia – Azulejos and an expanded edition of the collection “Suspended Gardens”, enriched with three newly introduced pieces.
This site-specific presentation transformed architectural heritage into a living dialogue between textile, light and space — where contemporary craft inhabited history through presence, rhythm and atmosphere.
FROM ARCHITECTURAL SURFACE TO LUMINOUS TEXTILE FORM.
Curated by Ana Carolina Villanueva, and presented at Luka Art Gallery, the exhibition privileged dialogue over display. Rather than isolating objects, the works were positioned in conversation with the palace’s volumes, proportions and natural light, allowing the architecture to shape the experience of each piece.
The result was not an exhibition of objects, but a spatial composition — where contemporary textile art and historical architecture coexisted in resonance.
At the heart of the exhibition, Blossom Gardénia – Azulejos explored the meeting of Portuguese cultural heritage and contemporary textile sculpture. Inspired by the graphic language and chromatic poetry of traditional azulejos, the piece translated architectural pattern into movement, texture and light.
A LIVING GARDEN OF LIGHT, CONTINUOUSLY GROWING THROUGH NEW FORMS.
Alongside Blossom Gardénia – Azulejos, Craft Gardens presented the collection “Suspended Gardens”, now expanded with three new works developed specifically for this exhibition.
Inspired by cycles of nature, seasonal transformation and the regenerative potential of material, the collection unfolds as a constellation of suspended textile sculptures. Each piece functions as a botanical form in space — where tassels become foliage, light becomes atmosphere, and structure becomes rhythm.
Handcrafted from ECONYL® regenerated fibre, the works embody an artistic language rooted in sustainability, slow creation and spatial poetry.
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