MAx Provenzano

Nepheliaban

Between a closed exit and a glass door appears a suspended territory — an indeterminate state.

Starting from the idea that how it is outside is also how it is inside, we currently move through convulsive times, from the global to the personal — especially in my case.

This is a proposition about situating the body within that interval, in that limit, and revealing through an image the act of remaining at a frontier and making that discomfort visible.

Amid uncertainty and disorientation, the body becomes threshold and mirror, transparency and wall. The glass allows one to see without crossing; the closed exit prevents returning — entrance and closure simultaneously. Between these two limits, the body vibrates, inhabiting a space of transformation.

This action unfolds as an exercise in presence — a silent resistance that embraces indeterminacy — as the result of the workshop Situar el Cuerpo, led by the artist Seba Calfuqueo within the framework of BoCA Biennial in the city of Lisbon.

To inhabit the liminal is to suspend direction, to remain in the pause where meaning still remains unfinished.

Nocturnal Mycelactivity MAx Provenzano

Nocturnal Mycelactivity by MAx Provenzano evokes mycelium as a metaphor of connection and resistance. Accompanied by low-frequency techno music, the poetic gesture roots presence and unfolds invisible networks within the urban space.

A tree illuminated by projection of a videoart made with fragments of Fungus documentaries with songs of low frequency becomes the meeting point between root and city. Nocturnal Mycelactivity reflects on the invisible networks that sustain life, evoking mycelium as a metaphor of connection, care, and underground resistance. Within the ever-changing urban landscape, the action unfolds as a poetic gesture that insists on rooting presence and opening possibilities of connection. @provenstudio

As part of Árvore Mistela (Mistela Tree) - A collective performative project of Artéria @atelierarteria at MaisUno+1 @maisunomaisum

Ecologias Especulativas, um laboratório de imaginação ecológica da orla costeira

MAx ProvenStudio

Portrait by @brotherboss @bungalow15 (IG accounts)

@provenstudio @atelierarteria [Lisboa]

Sweat Generis poems

There are poems that aren’t written. They are sweated. Poems made of phonetic errors, translated stutters, muscular torsion. Verses slipping from the tongue like undocumented drops crossing a border.

Sweat Generis is not a conventional poetry series. It is a body extended across three languages —Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese— that seek not equivalence, but echo. A kind of score meant to be read aloud, fragmented, stammered, failed beautifully.

Each poem is born from a physical state: sweat as solvent, clumsiness as chemical reaction, migration as a phase transition.

From the voice of a queer, migrant chemist-artist, these texts investigate the friction between linguistic particles: the syllable mispronounced that becomes another, the word that stops halfway, the language that never quite arrives, but refuses silence.

Like molecules in collision, the poems of Sweat Generis never stabilize. They are intermediates. Ephemeral compounds. Oral devices. Sublime errors.

They do not seek meaning, but resonance. Like the river projected behind the voice, what these poems convey is not an exact phrase, but a current pulling phonemes, memories, absences.

Participating with the series of Poems/video

"Sweat Generis Poems"

Jun 2025

Quatro temas, quatro formas de leitura. Escolhe o livro que te fala — explora os limites da linguagem e ouve as vozes de dentro e de algures. Four themes, four ways of reading. Choose a book that speaks to you — explore the limits of languages and listen to voices from within and elsewhere.

Contra-visualidade, práticas espaciais, gentrificação e a disputa pela cidade através da imagem.

Nowhere_lisboa

Exposição + Conversa

Finissage: conversa + pré-lançamento do livro de @luiza.baldan

Créditos da imagem: Luiza Baldan, Bruno Bernardí, Enric Vives-Rubio, Leal Pereira, Lorena Santiago, Joana Resende

José Mendes, Olivia Borges, Ricardo Baltazar, Maria Fernanda Linares, Duda las Casas, Gabriela Santillan Hernández, Max Provenzano, Lorena Salamanca.

Curaduría de @fabianvillegas1 @edu_oyana

Lugar: Nowhere_lisboa

This year’s screening programme presents a powerful selection of 16 international and Latvian artists, as well as artist duos and collectives, working at the intersection of performance and moving image. Ranging from poetic gestures to political acts, these works reflect the festival’s ongoing inquiry into presence, process, and transformation – this time, expanded through the lens of video.

The B.L.U.S.H. Collective (CA), Riccardo Matlakas (IT/UK/DE), Chrystian Tamayo & Gabriela Alvarado (CO), Paul Regan (IE), Fran Orallo (ES), Non Grata (EST), Flávio Rodrigues (PT), Rita Marhaug (NO), Sarah Bild / Caroline Hayeur (CA), Rocky Meaney (IE), Inguna Audere (LV), MAx Provenzano (VE/PT), Ursula Maria Probst (AT), Reiko Shimizu (JP), Eva Vēvere & Gundega Evelone (LV), Đoàn Thanh Toàn & Naruebet Jaksusuwan (VN/TH)

📍 Cinema Kino Bize 🗓️ 28 May 2025

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PacoManolo Pym Kink Magazine

NEW!

CUADERNO 23 «Partituario», por MAx Provenzano 16 páginas. B/N. Bilingüe: Inglés-Español. 2025

Se regala con el nuevo número, sólo en nuestra tienda online. Kink 42 y Cuaderno 23 se presentan en un pack indivisible.

En Partituario he hecho una selección de páginas de mis diarios con infiltraciones de Polaroids. Este trabajo es una combinación reflexiva de estos 8 años que he estado fuera de Venezuela desde un espacio de enunciación puramente intimista, espero que puedan disfrutarlo 📓🖤

| BodyBorders |

This performance proposes a shift of the | BorderSlides | project towards the body as a site of inscription and a mutable border. The slides created in the "Faz Tua Própria Slide" workshop, made by children from the Cape Verdean migrant community in Talude, will be projected directly onto my body, which will act as a projection surface fixed against a wall. The body, motionless or in contained tension, becomes a membrane between light and opacity, between the image and its living support.

Informality as Resistance is a group exhibition displayed through a series of free activities happening alongside the PLAY(THE)GROUND exhibition at FBAUL – Cisterna, Lisbon.

The pieces are consequences of the artistic residency PLAY(THE)GROUND 2024 leaded by MaisUno+1

ATLAS) ROTACIONAL - Geodésico  ESCULTURA 003 INFLATABLE GLOBE ON SLIDES PROJECTOR ARCHIVAL SLIDES (2018-2025) @maxprovenzano

BYOB

Bring Your Own Beamer Lisboa 2025

Desinflamatório  Performance  Da Natureza dos Afetos  @casadavenida @provenstudio