Dreamy Corner, Re-imagining The Mediterranean, Cistern, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal​

This work emerges from walking through the streets of Lisbon and collecting small discarded objects left behind by tourists—fragments of packaging, plastic, receipts, bottle caps, wrappers… Each found object is carefully sealed inside a small vacuum bag, isolating and preserving it as a micro-artifact of contemporary urban life. The sealed objects are then connected into long strips of transparent vacuum bags, gradually forming a spatial installation titled Dreamy Corner. The work reflects on the idea of the world as a global village, where mobility, tourism, and consumerism produce increasingly similar visual environments. The residues found on Lisbon’s streets could just as easily belong to any other city. Within Dreamy Corner, the distinction between places begins to dissolve. Whether one stands by the sea or inland becomes less important, as the same objects, materials, and symbols circulate everywhere. The installation transforms waste into an archive of movement and desire, questioning how global consumption reshapes the identity of places while leaving behind a strangely uniform landscape of signs.