Jardin planétaire
[Jardim Planetário, Planetary Garden]
LISBON BY DESIGN 5th ed 2025
Lisbon by Design is an intimate fair tailored to share art design and crafts made in Portugal.
Range of works showcased at the fair comes with an exclusive opportunity to acquire them at studio prices — up to forty percent below the public catalog rate.
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“My work is a political statement for natural rhythms, focusing on upcycling materials and memories over a complete cycle of four seasons.”
Jardin planétaire
Inspired by the time it takes for trees to grow shade and the moments we pause to breathe beneath their shades, the time it takes to grow life, these pieces embody both time and transformation.
Jardim Planetário is a series in progress of large-scale textile artworks—cyanotype-printed on upcycled fabrics, exposed to the sun in Lisbon’s garden shades. Imitating the collective intelligence found in nature, Barbara Portailler sourced all textiles locally in Portugal and worked in collaboration with pairs. She is using high-quality fabric scraps from Celso de Lemos A & H and from vintage handmade linen. She has emarqued with visual artist Aurélie Mathigot and designer Lucie Schweitzer founder of Fantasque to collaborate on exclusive four-hands works.
Barbara Portailler is a visual artist & researcher based in Lisbon, deeply passionate about the cycles that shape materiality and collective memories. Working across photography, textile art, upcycling, video, ceramics, and storytelling, she explores the intersection of art and ecology.
“Photography ceases the moment, indigo adds another temporality.
I assemble fabrics around it like memories. The patchwork extends the image,
indigo reveals absence. Everything connects: gaze, gesture, material.”
Aurélie Mathigot is a textile and visual artist based in Paris, working with various craft techniques around the world.
“I explore the pathways of my mental landscape with my hands. Following my intuition and my dreams, I create my own mythology to reconnect with the natural universe.
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Lucie Schweitzer is a designer based in Estremoz, Portugal and co-founder of Fantasque, working with woolen and ceramics.