“Seasonal Fruit” Group Show
Albert Tannat, André Silva Sancho, Bisner, Bruno Grilo, corpo atelier, David Schmitt, Fernando Brazão, Graça Paz, Halina Magdalena Ekberg, Hélder de Sousa, Inês Pargana, Joana R. Sá, Los Pepes Studio, Luísa Leão, Milita Doré, Rita Kroh, Rui Vargas, Susana Cereja, Static Drama, Tom Leamon, XANA
28.03.2026 ------> 20.06.2026
“Seasonal Fruit” emerges from the idea of seasonality - of that which arises at its proper time, shaped by climate, territory and natural cycles.
In the mid-19th century, citrus production drove the economy of the Algarve, and Faro stood out for the fertility of its countryside. Decades later, this building housed the “Refrigerantes Quintódio” factory, where fruit was processed, bottled and distributed in the form of its well-known products in the south of the country: Pirolito, Sofrutos, Sufruto, among others. Nature became a product; maturation became a commodity.
Today, through GAMA RAMA, this space begins a new cycle of production. The gesture of transformation remains, but the substance changes. Where once production was carried out in series, there now emerge singular practices, experimental processes and emerging languages.
Just as fruit ripens under specific conditions, artistic practices also pass through cycles of germination, growth and harvest. The works gathered here occupy this point of intensity: they reflect the present moment of each artist while carrying five years of continuous work, dialogue and community building since 2020.
“Seasonal Fruit” thus assumes a retrospective dimension that is not anchored in the past, but in time as an active process of maturation. It is not about ordering events, but about revealing the formation of an evolving ecosystem - where each work is the fruit of cross-influences, persistence and accumulated experience. What is presented here is not a summary, but a state of growth.
The move of GAMA RAMA to this former industrial warehouse also marks the maturation of the project itself. A building once dedicated to agricultural and industrial transformation returns as a place of production - now oriented toward contemporary creation.
More than a metaphor, the title expresses a condition: art as a living organism, sensitive to time and territory. If every fruit has its season, every practice finds its cycle of maturation - the moment of revelation.
