How is public space configured in the digital environment?

Pulse space opens in April at the Islamic and Mediterranean Cultural Centre of Silves.

Pulse space, a solo exhibition by Carlos Miguel Gonçalves, opens on 18 April 2026 at 15:45 at the Islamic and Mediterranean Cultural Centre of Silves (Portugal), where it will remain on view until 22 May 2026.

Developed within the framework of a PhD research project in Fine Arts (Multimedia Art) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, the exhibition reflects on space as a cultural, technical and symbolic construction, shifting its understanding from the domain of representation to that of production.

The project is grounded in an epistemology of structure, operating an inversion of its traditional status as an invisible support of experience. By rendering structure perceptible, the exhibition displaces it from the implicit domain into that of direct experience, thus constituting it as a perceptual object.

In this context, space is not represented but activated as a field of relations, repetitions and intensities. Through visual devices that articulate line, density and pulsation, Pulse space makes perceptible a spatiality that, while operative, often remains invisible.

This critical reconfiguration of public space invokes a non-organic body whose dynamics are determined not by biological logic, but by flows and intensities. The pulsation that traverses space does not refer to blood, but to desire as a force of organisation and transformation of experience.

Presented in Silves, a city marked by a strong Luso-Arab historical memory, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between contemporary artistic research and historical spatial consciousness.