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ON: Smile! You’re on camera

— exhibition by Maria Peixoto Martins

29.01 — 18.04.26 06:00PM
Livraria Zé dos Bois

Opening: 29th of January 2026

Schedule:
Monday to Saturday
6PM - 10PM

Kabukichó Tokio
Hungary Stock Rescue Station Maliy, Hungary
Tropical Murphy’s Bar

The installation ON: Smile! You’re on camera, presented by Maria Peixoto Martins at Livraria Zé dos Bois, is the result of a project that the artist has been developing over the last year. This work explores the capture of images through videos from surveillance cameras around the world, accessible to anyone on the web, and combines them with a sound composition created from digital sources.
The artist thus constructs an immersive installation that invites the viewer to travel through different images, establishing relationships between them and the sounds that accompany them. At the same time, she draws attention to an issue that is so present in our daily lives and to which we often remain oblivious: what we observe are real moments and real people, most of whom are unaware that they are crossing the screens of thousands of other people.
A space where any of us has been, is, and inevitably will be.

Maria Peixoto Martins

Maria Peixoto Martins lives and works in Lisbon.
In her personal work, she focuses mostly on social issues, where the human body have a prodominant place. Questions of surveillance, representation, and self-representation are central to her projects. She examines the limits of digital imagery, such as pixelation and chromatic aberrations.

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