Umbigo #94 - Fantasy / Sci-Fi

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06 Nov 2025

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Umbigo

Umbigo #94 - Fantasy / Sci-Fi

AUTHOR

Umbigo

Umbigo #94 is now available in kiosks and on the Umbigo.space webstore.

The final edition of 2025 is dedicated to fantasy and science fiction (Sci-Fi), two themes that could also be included within the broader spectrum of speculative realism. It is not, therefore, escapism; it is simply a distancing that allows us to look at reality and daily life in a critical and radical way.

Umbigo #94 opens with covers by André Romão and Saeborg, whose works – at such distinct poles – remind us of Ovidian metamorphoses, dreams, and fictions of gender and power. If in Romão we have the fantasy of a magical and languid reverie, in Seaborg we have the delirious and vaguely Orwellian political fever.

Ricardo Mendes wrote the poem in this edition, and the column Mixed Media on Paper, by Luísa Salvador, looks at Monet's last works.

The curatorial project was conceived by Claudia Rodriguez-Ponga, who investigates the spectral phenomena of light and perception, opening space for the hermeneutics of fleeting glimmers and reflections, with works by Eva Lootz, Mónica Girón, Enrique Radigales, Debora Bolzsoni, Aina Albo Puigserver, Alejandro Corujeira, Daniel Moreira, and Rita Castro Neves.

You may also find written essays by Renny Pritikin, p. feijó, Yina Jiménez Suriel, and Álvaro Domingues, and visual essays by Sara Mealha, Pedro Pousada, Dave & Tony, and Evy Jokhova.

In the commissioned projects, Francisca Valador with the Interchanges project – FLAD, Albuquerque Mendes with the Drawing project – Fundação Carmona e Costa, and Tiago Bom is the artist chosen for the Landscapes project. In the Conversation Piece, João Silvério highlights the works of Inês Botelho and Thandi Pinto, present in the collection of the PLMJ Foundation.

Josseline Black interviews Seaborg and Alexander Burenkov, Noomin Zezegmaa.

The Extensions section includes Manuel da Costa Cabral, with an exhibition at Brotéria; Carlos Bunga in dialogue with curator Rui Mateus Amaral, in an exhibition at CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian; and Pedro Casqueiro, regarding his exhibition at MAAT.

Sofia Caetano is the featured artist in UmbigoLAB, with a profile written by Maria Inês Mendes.

The edition closes with an essay by Francisco Correia, who offers an analysis of the multiple interpretations and adaptations of Dracula, by Bram Stoker.

Umbigo #94 features a collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), specifically with the students of Transversal Painting Media and Professor Nuno Sousa Vieira. This special project takes the form of an insert and is available to readers who purchase the magazine at its launches and through subscriptions, as well as to everyone on the Umbigo mailing list.

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