The theme Borders inaugurates Umbigo's 2026 editorial plan. Co-curated with Luis Prados Covarrubias and Claudio Hontana Muñoz from the Cultural Section of the Spanish Embassy in Portugal, issue #95 explores the abstract idea of borders. It examines porosities, contaminations, good neighbour practices, and transgressions that are historically and culturally embedded in transition and administrative zones.
This issue features Rigo 23 and Mirna Bamieh (cover and back cover authors); Marta Sesé Fuentes (exhibition/curatorial project); Pedro G. Romero, Germán Labrador Méndez, Álvaro Domingues, Brotéria, LatimLove (written essays); Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, Daniela Ortiz, Uriel Orlow , Marta Castelo, and Miguel Rubio Tapia (visual essays); interview with the artist Asunción Molinos Gordo; Gabriel Garcia and Marco Pires (Conversation Piece - PLMJ Foundation); Juliana Campos (FLAD Interchanges project); Manuel Botelho (Carmona e Costa Foundation Drawing Project); Niño de Elche (Unfolding BoCA), Anne Imhof (Unfolding Serralves); and the curatorial project by Master's students in Curatorial Studies at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra (UmbigoLAB).
INDEX
A Poem
1 > about the north and the south – Inês Francisco Jacob
12 > Editorial
14 > Contributors
Mixed media on paper
34 > The dilution of time – Luísa Salvador
Deep Learning
36 > #33 – José Pardal Pina
Conversation Piece - PLMJ
38 > #15 – João Silvério
Project Rigo 23 (COVER 1)
40 > Profile by Renny Pritikin
43 > Art Project – Farwest 2026 – A World Free of Borders
Exhibition
50 > Mythical thought, radical imagination by Marta Sesé Fuentes
Essays
69 > Choro [Chorus] / Dis-composition – Pedro G. Romero
80 > To cross forts and borders: a few points on geopoetics from an Iberian perspective – Germán Labrador Méndez
87 > Us and Them – Álvaro Domingues
94 > Awareness of the Border as Density – Brotéria
98 > The Portuñhol boundaries from la línea [the line] to la raya [the border] – Bruna Castro and Rafaela Cardeal (LatimLove)
Visual Essays
105 > Nuno Nunes-Ferreira
110 > Daniela Ortiz
115 > Uriel Orlow
120 > Marta Castelo
125 > Miguel Rubio Tapia
Interview
131 > The Onward-Leading Heart: Asunción Molinos Gordo on Pensamiento Campesino, Borders, and the Continuum – Josseline Black
Landscapes Project (COVER 2)
141 > #4 – Mirna Bamieh
Interchanges Project – FLAD
149 > Juliana Campos
Drawing Project – Carmona e Costa Foundation
156 > Manuel Botelho
Unfolding
164 > BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts 2025 – The rasgueado singing of Niño de Elche
170 > Serralves Foundation – Anne Imhof
UmbigoLAB – Millennium bcp Foundation
176 > #26 – Anti-Isto – Manifesto-Poem - Students from the Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies of Colégio das Artes from Coimbra University – MNAC
Zoom
180 > Alexandre Estrela – 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
181 > Cornelia Parker. A Storm this way comes – KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art
182 > Preview: Malta Art Biennale 2026
183 > Júlio Pomar: 100 Years – Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar and other places
184 > Avenida 211 @ MAC/CCB
Back cover
Rigo 23, Iperé – Cicatriz de Tordesilhas, 2017
