This workshop was the second moment of the “Potential Matter” program with Hernâni Reis Baptista, to share results obtained during the biomaterials research period and to hold an ecoprint workshop on silk.
Hernâni Reis Baptista is a visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice that has crossed diverse media such as installation, sculpture or the expanded field of the image. His work is concerned with human and more-than-human relationships, but also with the artificial dimension of contemporary life, referring to the use of the body as a vehicle for thinking about performativity in the social context.
He is interested in the exploration of surfaces, be they the skin of the body or that which surrounds it, through industrial replicas, such as synthetic skins, clothing, or the potential of new materials.

This activity is supported by Lab2PT and is carried out by the project DiTTA – Discourses: Territory, Textiles and Art.