Hosted by sissi club as part of the PAC Festival, Bisou Magique reaches its final chapter with a group exhibition that brings together the formal and conceptual explorations developed throughout the project. This concluding presentation highlights the interrelationships between distinct artistic practices, forming a shared space in which methodologies, materials and narratives intersect.

This iteration of the project has focused on process-based approaches and material experimentation, highlighting the way in which each artist navigates form as a means of constructing meaning. Whether through sculpture, installation, painting or video, the works on display demonstrate a commitment to reflecting on materials, both for their physical properties and for their capacity to contain memory, history and fiction.

The practices engage in dialogue, linked by a keen attention to materiality and the tensions that arise between what is revealed and what remains implicit. Rather than favouring a single narrative or aesthetic logic, the exhibition presents a constellation of approaches that remain distinct yet resonate through shared concerns – surface, structure, composition and transformation.

A magical kiss – a kiss that heals – is evoked here not only as a gesture of care, but also as a conceptual framework through which the exhibition explores how works of art can serve as a mediator between the personal and the collective. In this context, healing becomes a structural rather than an emotional proposition, involving the reconfiguration of materials, contexts and relationships.

By positioning individual works within a formal dialogue, Bisou Magique opens up a space for critical reflection on how artistic strategies overlap, echo one another or diverge. The exhibition eschews thematic cohesion in favour of an open, polyphonic structure that reflects the collaborative ethos of the project itself.

Noelia Portela