Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
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20 July 2026
In 2026, Cycles travelled from Lisbon to Tokyo, presenting a contemporary view of the Portuguese capital at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of an exhibition at its Citizens Gallery
Invited by the Zen Cultural Association, which organised the exhibition cycle, ADVERSA presented the project digitally to a public of more than 4,000 visitors. The presentation was accompanied by guided visits aimed at academic audiences in art and architecture, extending the project from an exhibition object into a way of discussing how cities can be observed and documented through new image-making technologies.
The setting carried a particular resonance. Founded in 1926, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum was Japan's first public art museum and has historically combined major exhibitions with spaces intended for artists, cultural organisations and civic participation.
Cycles brought Lisbon into that context through a visual language built from three-dimensional mapping. Developed around spaces encountered through Open House Lisboa, the project reduces and reconstructs sections of the city as if they were fragments of an evolving model — structures shifting through light, time and successive states of definition.
The Tokyo presentation followed the project's distinction by the international jury of Open House Europe in Athens and coincided with another development in its trajectory: its incorporation into the Lisbon Municipal Archive in 2026.
Seen in Japan, this contemporary digital portrait of Lisbon entered a cultural relationship whose history reaches back centuries. Rather than attempting to illustrate that history directly, Cycles offered a present-day continuation of it: a Portuguese city translated through contemporary visual technology and encountered by a Japanese public.
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Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
Topic:
Work
Year:
20 July 2026
In 2026, Cycles travelled from Lisbon to Tokyo, presenting a contemporary view of the Portuguese capital at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of an exhibition at its Citizens Gallery
Invited by the Zen Cultural Association, which organised the exhibition cycle, ADVERSA presented the project digitally to a public of more than 4,000 visitors. The presentation was accompanied by guided visits aimed at academic audiences in art and architecture, extending the project from an exhibition object into a way of discussing how cities can be observed and documented through new image-making technologies.
The setting carried a particular resonance. Founded in 1926, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum was Japan's first public art museum and has historically combined major exhibitions with spaces intended for artists, cultural organisations and civic participation.
Cycles brought Lisbon into that context through a visual language built from three-dimensional mapping. Developed around spaces encountered through Open House Lisboa, the project reduces and reconstructs sections of the city as if they were fragments of an evolving model — structures shifting through light, time and successive states of definition.
The Tokyo presentation followed the project's distinction by the international jury of Open House Europe in Athens and coincided with another development in its trajectory: its incorporation into the Lisbon Municipal Archive in 2026.
Seen in Japan, this contemporary digital portrait of Lisbon entered a cultural relationship whose history reaches back centuries. Rather than attempting to illustrate that history directly, Cycles offered a present-day continuation of it: a Portuguese city translated through contemporary visual technology and encountered by a Japanese public.
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Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
Cycles unveils Lisbon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Exhibition, Citizens Gallery
Topic:
Work
Year:
20 July 2026
In 2026, Cycles travelled from Lisbon to Tokyo, presenting a contemporary view of the Portuguese capital at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of an exhibition at its Citizens Gallery
Invited by the Zen Cultural Association, which organised the exhibition cycle, ADVERSA presented the project digitally to a public of more than 4,000 visitors. The presentation was accompanied by guided visits aimed at academic audiences in art and architecture, extending the project from an exhibition object into a way of discussing how cities can be observed and documented through new image-making technologies.
The setting carried a particular resonance. Founded in 1926, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum was Japan's first public art museum and has historically combined major exhibitions with spaces intended for artists, cultural organisations and civic participation.
Cycles brought Lisbon into that context through a visual language built from three-dimensional mapping. Developed around spaces encountered through Open House Lisboa, the project reduces and reconstructs sections of the city as if they were fragments of an evolving model — structures shifting through light, time and successive states of definition.
The Tokyo presentation followed the project's distinction by the international jury of Open House Europe in Athens and coincided with another development in its trajectory: its incorporation into the Lisbon Municipal Archive in 2026.
Seen in Japan, this contemporary digital portrait of Lisbon entered a cultural relationship whose history reaches back centuries. Rather than attempting to illustrate that history directly, Cycles offered a present-day continuation of it: a Portuguese city translated through contemporary visual technology and encountered by a Japanese public.
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