“Do delicado trabalho da agulha” (From the delicate work of the needle), with drawings from Coleção Desenhos da Madeira, opens this Friday at 6pm in the cloister of the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Municipal Museum.

Curated by Luiza Teixeira Freitas, the exhibition was born in the context of the celebration of 10 years of Pediatric Palliative Care in Portugal – whose National Meeting is taking place these days at the Cine-Teatro de Amarante. It´s an invitation to think about these issues through art, particularly drawing. Incorporating art into palliative care recognises the importance of addressing the holistic needs of patients, including their emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. Art serves as a tool to promote dignity, comfort, and quality of life in difficult times, offering a meaningful and transformative experience.

The drawings by 53 international artists – including Simon Evans, Joseph Grigley, and Jorge Macchi – tell the chronological story of life in its most diverse themes. The choice on how to navigate the exhibition is free; each one can choose to start at the end – death; or at the beginning – life. In dialogue with the cloisters of the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum, the exhibition takes on a cyclical particularity, where the variants of life intertwine, meet, and overlap, in a space that itself becomes timeless.

“Do delicado trabalho da agulha” (“From the delicate work of the needle”) will be on show at the ASCMM until 29 January 2024.