RED SKIES

Event showcasing a project across art and science with outdoor video projection and round table.

Date: 3 June 2026
Schedule:
7:30 PM – Roundtable
8:30 PM – Screening of Red Skies on the exterior façade of the Champalimaud Foundation
Local: Alameda of the Champalimaud Foundation
Free entry with registration via this link

Roundtable and videoinstallation

The cultural initiative of the Champalimaud Foundation, Bridges to the Unknown – Crossing Art with Science, presents to the public the outcome of a unique dialogue between artistic creation and scientific research, developed within its art residency programme at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.

This residency brought together visual artist Marina Thomé and Principal Investigator Ana Luísa Correia, from the Cancer Dormancy & Immunity Lab at Champalimaud Research, in a collaboration that explores new ways of thinking about the body, disease, and unpredictability.

The event begins with a roundtable bringing together different perspectives — artistic, clinical, and scientific — on breast cancer and its biological and subjective dimensions. The conversation features artist Marina Thomé, clinical psychologist and psycho-oncology specialist Luzia Travado (Champalimaud Foundation), and Ana Luísa Correia, and is moderated by Márcia Mansur, anthropologist and associate curator of the project.

The evening culminates with the presentation of Red Skies, a site-specific installation projected onto the exterior façade of the Champalimaud Foundation. In this work, scientific images from breast cancer research are placed in dialogue with recordings of seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, creating a visual language that connects biological and geological processes. Through these juxtapositions, the installation proposes new ways of reading the body’s invisible dynamics, the unpredictability of disease, and resilience.

In this context, dormancy — whether volcanic or cellular — emerges simultaneously as a metaphor for threat and for hope: something that may awaken at any moment, but which, by remaining suspended, also points to the possibility of containment and healing.

Red Skies is supported by the Lisbon City Council.