{"id":2861,"date":"2026-09-30T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/?page_id=2861"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:15:06","slug":"2025-edition-fio-de-cera-draft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/?page_id=2861","title":{"rendered":"2025 Edition: Fio de Cera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2025 edition of the exhibition, Fio de Cera<\/em> \u2014 the second annual exhibition of the Master in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects \u2014, took place from September 29 to October 3, 2025<\/strong>, at the Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (FBAUP)<\/strong>. It opened on September 29 at 5:30 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works on display:<\/strong> Course Projects and Assignments<\/a> \u00b7 Master Dissertations and Reports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See all the works from this exhibition in the Portfolio<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fio de Cera<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thread and wax. Two distinct raw materials, at first unrelated, that come together to bind and support millennia of information and knowledge. Sewn with linen, hemp or silk, on papyrus, paper, leather or skin, the book has traveled through centuries of generations with the same format and construction. The thread is its backbone, the wax its marrow. In the same breath that we say there is no reason to reinvent the wheel, we might say the same of the book. But reinvention can also be encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fio de Cera<\/em> brings together projects conceived by students of the Master in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects in several first-year curricular units, as well as research processes from second-year internships, projects and dissertations. The objects on display explore typographic revivalism and how it is approached today, the importance of the image as an expressive and narrative element, the relationship between illustration and design, and the sensory experience of leafing through the pages of a publication, in explorations of visual rhythm, materials, and printing and binding processes. From the small to the huge, from the book to the poster, from fabric to paper, reinvention is encouraged here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the act of sewing together the many pages of a book gives structure to the absurd mass of information in imposition \u2014 of text and images, of experiences and narratives \u2014, then perhaps thread and wax bind the materialization of all the knowledge we gather and that exists within us. This knowledge, now organized and immortalized, thus creates an inevitable physical and symbolic relationship between the human being and the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening performance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At 6 pm: Dios Por\u00e1s (Por Favor Deus)<\/em>, a performance by Beatriz Oliveira conceived especially for this exhibition. The work starts from two central elements \u2014 the thread and the wax that give the exhibition its name \u2014, both understood as symbolic containers of information intrinsic to human evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works on Exhibition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ana Pimenta, Ana Sofia Coelho, Andr\u00e9 do Carmo Gon\u00e7alves, Anita Nunes, Beatriz Oliveira, Bruna Chichavel, Bruna Valoura, Bruno Barros, Cl\u00e1udia Martina, Hugo Carvalho, Hugo Moura, Jo\u00e3o Sousa, Jorge Santos Duarte, Juan Holgu\u00edn, Julien Lima, Leonor Carvalho, L\u00edlia Amaro, Lu\u00eds Lopes, Mafalda Ribeiro, Maria Lu\u00edsa Pinto, Marta Carvalho, Melissa Gaviria Henao, Rita Soares, Roberta Miranda, S\u00e9rgio Brito, Taina Silva, Victoria Borges Brites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Curator:<\/strong> Rui Vitorino Santos
Coordination:<\/strong> Rui Vitorino Santos, Cristina Ferreira and Pedro Amado
Organization:<\/strong> the MDGPE Graphic Assembly (Assembleia Gr\u00e1fica) \u2014 Bruna Chichavel, Cl\u00e1udia Martina, Jo\u00e3o Sousa, L\u00edlia Amaro, Lu\u00eds Lopes, Maria Lu\u00edsa Pinto, Marta Carvalho and Roberta Miranda
Installation support:<\/strong> Lu\u00eds Nunes, Isabel Gon\u00e7alves (FBAUP Museum), Jo\u00e3o Lima and Jorge Garc\u00eas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2025 edition of the exhibition, Fio de Cera \u2014 the second annual exhibition of the Master in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects \u2014, took place from September 29 to October 3, 2025, at the Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (FBAUP). It opened on September 29 at 5:30 pm. Works… Continue reading 2025 Edition: Fio de Cera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2861","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdgpe.fba.up.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}