Artistic Partnership

 

The collaboration of José Teibão and Becken Filipe brings together two distinct yet complementary currents: one rooted in microbiology, memory, and the presence of absence; the other grounded in painting, philosophy, and framing the infinite. Their intersection creates a unique field of tension, where intuition meets method, poetry meets observation, and symbolic structures resonate with scientific rigor.

Together, José Teibão and Becken Filipe operate on a common hinge: Tension as the driving force of action and sociocultural transformation, and the Presence of Absence as a latent premise running through both their individual works and joint interventions.
 

This collaboration emerges from the friction between matter and memory, technique and intuition, language and silence — coming together in projects that challenge the viewer to experience the interval between the visible and the invisible, the finite and the infinite, meaning and the concrete, as a space of aesthetic and human revelation.
 

The meeting between José Teibão’s scientific background in microbiology and Becken Filipe’s visual and philosophical research methodology expands the scope of this partnership, bringing to the artistic practice a rational, contemporary, and structured foundation. Both develop their work on solid grounds, interweaving scientific methodologies, processes of observation and systematic experimentation, as well as literary and theoretical documentation practices.
 

This intersection of art and science, poetic intuition and investigative rigor, translates into a unique approach, where aesthetic sensitivity is supported by deep and continuous research — resulting in an artistic practice with emotional resonance, conceptual depth, and formal integrity.

Together, they vibrate at an ineffable frequency, where creation amplifies beyond what each would achieve alone.