Bruno Caracol (PT)

Bruno Caracol (1980) studied Fine Arts at FBAUL and Communication Sciences at FCSH-NOVA. Since 2018, he has been collaborating as a set designer with Um Coletivo, designing and constructing the scenographic spaces for projects such as “A Tempestade”, “O Cão que vem de Tão Tão Longe”, “A Invencível Armada”, “Penélope”, among others. In 2022, he built exhibition structures for “Timeline a Haver” by Parasita, and in 2020 for the Traça Festival by the Videoteca de Lisboa. In 2019, he collaborated with Sílvia Pinto Coelho on the project “CAPRICHO#12 Jogo de Espelhos”, focusing on scenic space. In recent years, he has dedicated himself to working with resonant objects, fictional futures, and the relationship with the non-human world—a research that often expresses itself as immersive, scenographic space. Together with Rita Castro, Pavel Tavares, and Joke Van den Heuvel, he forms the collective Sphere 4, which reflects on landscape transformations by human action. This research materialised in 2023 with the project Waterworld, centred on the submersion of Ria Formosa, exhibited as a multimedia installation at the Convento de Santo António in Loulé, and in 2024 as a guided sound walk in Barquinha, Ílhavo, in the Ria de Aveiro. He has exhibited at the São Paulo Cultural Centre in São Paulo, at Rampa in Porto, at the Festival Materiais Diversos in Minde, and at the A_Salto Festival in Elvas; he has been a resident artist at Lugar a Dudas in Cali and at Can Serrat in Barcelona, and has collaborated with the Capacete residency in Rio de Janeiro.