Inês Neto dos Santos

Reconfiguring, re-dyeing, ripping and sewing back together again, fermenting, dissolving, melting, digesting. My table of stretched time, space and living beings landed last month at @alfaia_org for ‘A story told around the fire’ curated by @david.s.reves and it was beautiful to share fermented soda, bread and butter with new and old friends 🌱 ‘Unfurling’ is a piece I’ve exhibited a few times now and it is never the same. The fabrics are re-dyed with whatever plants and pigments I have then, jars filled with whatever needs fermenting, new pieces of dry scoby, soda made of whatever fruit is going, bread and butter made fresh to share. It’s a table with two seats, an invitation to share time with creatures other than ourselves. It sits seemingly still until the exhibition ends but in fact, is brimming with micro-activity, jars bubbling, colours fading. Someone stirs the soda every other day. The exhibition ‘A story told around the fire’ is on until 11 March @alfaia_org with these wonderful humans: @ani_schulze @marianagomesgoncalves @ritaiferreira @zonaingravida @pjorgeserra @sofiemalie Thank you @david.s.reves for the beautiful invitation and @alfaia_org for having us 🧡 Photos by 1. @rita___subtil 3.@sofiemalie and remaining @__luisbranca__ @stills_portugal Cotton and linen fabric dyed with plants (oak gall, madder root, dyer’s alkanet, onion skins, marigold, avocado pits and skins, turmeric, black walnut), beeswax, bronze, dried scoby, black badger peas and maris bead fava beans, fermented sweetheart cabbage, fermented raspberry soda, marigold kombucha, dry bread, rosehips, plums preserved in beeswax.

Yoghurt Jacket and Friends Who Ferment (2022) in my studio @levelfive.brussels in the winter light earlier this year 🤍 Friends Who Ferment is a patchwork quilt of ferment-coated cloths sent to me by friends all over @victoriamanganiello @p.v.sapundjiev @casualmouldy @h_m_f @ross_rgb @carmen_facio @gasthaus_kitchenlab @aquelakombucha @thomeagle @jelena.belgrave @_melaniemcintosh_ @foodventures_with_fatti and lots I made myself over time 🌀

‘Sourdough jacket’ (2022) - a travelling, wearable sculpture, inspired by stories of travellers and migrants travelling with dry ferments in their pockets - pieces of cloth embedded with starters for various things... preserved indefinitely, ready to be reawakened wherever they end up. Dirty cloths to outside eyes, but, in reality, portals into a whole world. This piece is lined with dry sourdogh starter that I spread on cloth. Dormant yeasts, ready to unfold into many breads. The jacket may keep your body warm and also become a source for sustenance, filled with possibilities for multiplication and renewal. What you take out, you can add back in again, in perpetuity. Cyclical breads. The jacket had its first gentle outing through the @arthealingcollective , with lots of encouragement from @beccapf for our exhibition Spring Gathering @sanmeigallery 💫 in the 3rd pic, I’m wearing it while giving a workshop on fermented sodas 🍒 which we fermented with sourdough starter. It then headed to @whitechapelgallery , hung on a sourdough bread hanger 🧡 Images 1&2: photo by Sam Nightingale. The London Open 2022, The Whitechapel Gallery, London 3: wild soda workshop at @sanmeigallery 4: inside of the jacket 5: testing 6: sewing it together at @villalena in 2021 7: early days, putting together the sourdough fabric lining 💛

Workshop de Amuletos de Pão com Inês Neto dos Santos e conversa com a artista, com Inês Coelho da Silva, Kevin Bellò e Inês Neto dos Santos No âmbito da exposição “Ecologia Quotidiana” de Inês Coelho da Silva, a Alfaia acolhe, no dia 16 de maio, às 15h00, um workshop de amuletos de pão. Conduzido pela artista Inês Neto dos Santos, este workshop pretende investigar o significado de um amuleto como um objeto de bolso: portador de sentido, um recipiente de memória, narrativa e relação com um lugar. Sabendo que a experiência humana de memória, lugar e tempo é fundamentalmente efémera e não linear, os participantes terão a oportunidade de construir os seus próprios amuletos, utilizando um material perecível: massa de pão. Através desta experiência, vamos tentar descobrir: o que é um amuleto, e o que significa construir um que seja comestível, compostável ou temporário? O workshop será seguido por uma conversa, com início marcado para as 16h30, com Inês Neto dos Santos, Inês Coelho da Silva e o curador da exposição “Ecologia Quotidiana”, Kevin Bellò. O workshop é gratuito, mas sujeito a inscrição e limitado a 15 participantes ([email protected] | [email protected]). Estrutura financiada por: República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura, Juventude e Desporto @dg.artes Município de Loulé @municipiodeloule Com o Apoio de: @ciac.centro_de_investigacao @stills_portugal @loulejardimhotel @barrancolongo @cantinaguy @teresaxufre # CF Audit

Co-directing @thegramounce is to dream, to constantly hold things, to always run after something we don’t quite know exists but we hope it does. It is softening corners and sharpening pillows. It’s a little bit impossible but also the most obvious thing. It’s holding our breath and closing our eyes and learning through our bellies and guts. Applications for next year’s FOOD & ART altMA are closing this SUNDAY, apply and join us to see the world through food: the ideal (and honestly the OG) world building material 🥔🥚🌽🥦🥐🦐🍇🧀 via @thegramounce Thank you to our most amazing team of wizards, cooks and magical creatures @barneypau @noajansma @ines.coelho.da.silva @kevin.bello.art @milaordo and to the greatest co-dreamer of them all @noramutcho ✨💖🌷 — Photos and impressions from our recent residency in Mexico with @colectivo_amasijo , who took us on a deeply moving and complex journey through the foodways of CDMX and beyond, held by generosity and their affective network. Gracias 🧡 1-2 Nopales @calpulli.tecalco , in Milpa Alta 3 Delcy Morelos ‘El Espacio vientre’ @muac_unam 4 @thegramounce bus 5 Maguey fields with Blas Melo in Milpa Alta 6 squirrels in La Condesa 7 @tilmalab @chinamperrxs @crescendelachinampa en Xochimilco 8 landscapes of @calpulli.tecalco 9 salt lakes with Rafael Villanueva en Atenco, Texcoco 10 unearthed from 2018, the first sparks with @noramutcho ❤️‍🔥 Pics 1,2,3 by @siem.siem.siem

Inês Neto dos Santos & Sina Hensel → Duo exhibition → Opening Thu 13 November, 18:00-21:00 → Wintertuin @royalacademyantwerp We warmly invite you to the final presentations/ work-in-progress/ gatherings for two research projects from the Art & Ecology research group of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In this exhibition, colour and fermentation meet as parallel gestures of belonging and adaptation. ‘The Future Is a Purple Tree’ by Sina Hensel traces how plants protect themselves through pigment – a more-than-human gesture that offers ways to see and sense environmental shifts and local resilience. ‘Collective Gestures’ by Inês Neto dos Santos follows the slow work of fermentation, where microbes, textiles and human stories travel together across borders and time. Brought into dialogue, these projects invite attention to processes that sustain life beyond the human, and that might inform more grounded ways of living with the land- and waterscapes that we call our home. ________________ → OPENING Thursday 13 November, 18:00 - 21:00 With a reading by Inês Neto dos Santos, followed by a conversation among Sina Hensel, Inês Neto dos Santos and Roel Arkesteijn. → Exhibition until 20 November 2025 🔗 More info via #linkinbio ________________ (image details: left - Inês Neto dos Santos / right - Sina Hensel) @sinahensel @inesns #researchroyalacademyantwerp #artandresearchantwerp #artisticresearch #royalacademyantwerp #inesnetodossantos #sinahensel #artandecology

🥬 No sábado passado, no parque de merendas da Horta Urbana da Quinta das Lameiras, celebrámos o resultado de um ciclo de encontros conduzido por Inês Neto dos Santos com hortelãos e vizinhos da horta. Durante três sessões, fermentaram-se vegetais da horta — e também ideias, textos e afetos, entre pessoas, plantas e microrganismos. Olhou-se para trás, por cima, por debaixo e do avesso — como sugere o título da ativação — explorando formas de vizinhança que atravessam tempo, espaço e ecossistemas partilhados. 🥒 A ativação terminou com um almoço partilhado, servido sobre tecidos tingidos nas oficinas, abrigada pela instalação arquitetónica desenhada pelo @ram_arquitetura , num momento coletivo de digestão e de leitura dos poemas escritos pelos participantes. 📸 @adriano_ferreira_borges / @braga25cpc — 🥕 This past Saturday, at the picnic area of the Horta Urbana da Quinta das Lameiras, we gathered to celebrate the outcome of a series of sessions led by Inês Neto dos Santos, together with gardeners and neighbours of the community garden. Over the course of three workshops — paced by the slow rhythm of fermentation — vegetables from the garden were fermented, but so too were ideas, texts and bonds, between people, plants and microorganisms. It was a chance to look back, look over, underneath and inside out — as the title of the activation suggests — exploring forms of neighbourliness that cross time, space, and shared ecosystems. 🥒 The activation ended with a shared lunch, served over fabrics dyed during the workshops, sheltered by the architectural installation designed by the @ram_arquitetura — a collective moment of digestion and reading of poems written by the participants.

[ ESGOTADO / FULLY BOOKED ] COMO OLHAR PARA TRÁS, POR CIMA, POR DEBAIXO E DO AVESSO de Inês Neto dos Santos 📅 2 de agosto, 13h00–15h30 📍 Horta urbana das Lameiras, Braga 🔔 Participação gratuita, mas sujeita a inscrição (link na bio). 🌱Já reservaste o teu lugar à volta da mesa do almoço performativo que a @inesns irá preparar para nós? As vagas estão a voar! 🕊️ Ao longo de três sessões, num ritmo lento e atento, a artista convidou-nos a pensar e a sentir os processos digestivos e metabólicos da horta, reconhecendo a presença e o papel de todos os seus habitantes: humanos, plantas, animais, fungos e microrganismos. A experiência culmina no próximo sábado, dia 2 de agosto, num almoço performativo, como gesto de cuidado e de nutrição de uma relação mais simbiótica, recíproca e sensível com o espaço partilhado da vizinhança. _________________ HOW TO LOOK BACK, FROM ABOVE, FROM UNDERNEATH AND INSIDE OUT by Inês Neto dos Santos 📅 2 August, 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. 📍 Lameiras Urban Garden, Braga 🔔 Free participation, but registration is required (link in bio). 🌱 Have you booked your seat at the performative lunch prepared by @inesns ? Places are flying! 🕊️ Over the course of three sessions, at a slow and attentive pace, the artist invited us to think about — and feel — the digestive and metabolic processes of the garden, acknowledging the presence and role of all its inhabitants: humans, plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. The experience culminates this coming Saturday, 2 August, in a performative lunch — a gesture of care and nourishment, fostering a more symbiotic, reciprocal, and sensitive relationship with the shared space of the neighbourhood. 📸 DDP @danielduartep_

COMO OLHAR PARA TRÁS, POR CIMA, POR DEBAIXO E DO AVESSO de Inês Neto dos Santos [ ESGOTADO / FULLY BOOKED ] 📅 2 de agosto, 13h00–15h30 📍 Horta urbana das Lameiras, Braga 🔔 Participação gratuita, mediante inscrição (link na bio). A artista multidisciplinar Inês Neto dos Santos irá preparar e guiar um almoço performativo, que marcará o culminar da oficina de fermentação — dividida em várias sessões — que tem vindo a orientar na horta urbana das Lameiras, no âmbito do festival FORMA DA VIZINHANÇA. Nas duas primeiras sessões, @inesns conduziu-nos pela exploração da horta e pela preparação dos seus alimentos para fermentação natural. Cerca de um mês depois, no dia 2 de agosto, voltamos a reunir-nos à volta da mesa para ver — e provar — o resultado desse processo… e de outras coisas boas que a artista nos trará. Quem se junta a este momento de partilha à volta de uma bela mesa? _________________ HOW TO LOOK BACK, FROM ABOVE, FROM UNDERNEATH AND INSIDE OUT by Inês Neto dos Santos 📅 2 August, 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. 📍 Lameiras Urban Garden, Braga 🔔 Free participation, registration required (link in bio). Multidisciplinary artist Inês Neto dos Santos will prepare and lead a performative lunch, marking the culmination of the fermentation workshop — spread across several sessions — which she has been guiding at the Lameiras Urban Garden as part of the FORMA DA VIZINHANÇA festival. In the first two sessions, @inesns led us through the garden and introduced us to the use and preparation of its produce for natural fermentation. About a month later, on 2 August, we’ll gather again around the table to see — and taste — the results of that process… and to enjoy other delicious things the artist has in store for us. Who’s joining us for this shared moment around a beautiful table? 📸 DDP @danielduartep_

PT A terceira ativação do festival FORMA DA VIZINHANÇA acontece no parque de merendas da Horta Urbana da Quinta das Lameiras pela artista multidisciplinar Inês Neto dos Santos, cujo trabalho cruza práticas alimentares, ecológicas e performativas, explorando a fermentação como metáfora para uma relação simbiótica entre espécies. Começa com uma oficina de fermentação, dividida em três sessões (24 e 25 de junho e 31 de julho), propondo um mergulho atento e coletivo no ecossistema da horta das Lameiras, através de exercícios de observação, respiração, colheita, escrita, fermentação, fertilização e performance. A participação é gratuita, mas requer inscrição. Vagas limitadas a 15 pessoas. Mais informações e inscrições em www.formadavizinhanca.pt e braga25.pt _________ EN The third activation of the FORMA DA VIZINHANÇA festival takes place at the picnic area of Quinta das Lameiras urban garden led by multidisciplinary artist Inês Neto dos Santos, whose work intersects food, ecological and performative practices, exploring fermentation as a metaphor for a symbiotic relationship between species. It begins with a fermentation workshop, unfolding over three sessions (24 and 25 June, and 31 July), offering a focused and collective immersion in the ecosystem of the Lameiras gardens, through exercises of observation, breathing, harvesting, writing, fermentation, fertilisation, and performance. Participation is free but registration is required. Limited to 15 participants. More information and registration at www.formadavizinhanca.pt and braga25.pt

The River's Tongue foi um jantar de apresentação na Casa Jardim da Estrela em Lisboa, parte final do projeto de residência “Lisbon Spice Rack” das artistas Rain Wu, Inês Neto dos Santos e Mariana Salvador, que investigou as paisagens silvestres comestíveis das margens do rio Tejo. O jantar apresentado utilizou espécies vegetais selvagens locais e sazonais como especiarias, aromas e acompanhamentos para pratos tradicionais locais. Este projeto faz parte do projeto financiado pela União Europeia @bauhaus.seas Bauhaus of the Seas Sails e é organizado pela @fcgulbenkian @camgulbenkian e conta com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e do @iti_larsys Interactive technologies Institute. 📸 Sara Pinheiro @ph_sarapinheiro ___________ The River’s Tongue was a dinner presentation at Casa Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon, the final part of the residency project " Lisbon Spice Rack" by the artists Rain Wu, Inês Neto dos Santos and Mariana Salvador, which investigated the edible wild landscapes on the banks of the River Tagus. The dinner presented seasonal wild plant species as spices, flavourings, and accompaniments for traditional local dishes. This project is part of European funded @bauhaus.seas Bauhaus of the Seas Sails and hosted by @fcgulbenkian @camgulbenkian and with supports from the City Hall of Lisbon and @iti_larsys Interactive technologies Institute. 📸 Sara Pinheiro @ph_sarapinheiro

For the last year, Inês Neto dos Santos, Mariana Salvador and I have been working on an artistic project ‘Lisbon Spice Rack’, looking into wild modes of eating and integrating foraged plants with Portuguese staple dishes. We found kin in the Salinas do Samouco, the salt marshes on the opposite bank of River Tagus from Lisbon, learning about the ecosystems of the halophytes there. This week, we present The River’s Tongue, a dinner presentation at Casa Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon as the final outcome of our research! This project is part of European funded @bauhaus.seas Bauhaus of the Seas Sails and hosted by @fcgulbenkian @camgulbenkian and with supports from the City Hall of Lisbon and @iti_larsys Interactive technologies Institute Photos by Sara Pinheiro @ph_sarapinheiro Special thanks to @salinagreens.pt for navigating the landscape and species with us