DISTANTE

Distante is António F. Duarte + collaborators

Architectures for inner territories

NEW

I Don’t Know How Many Souls I Have, UdK Medienhaus Galerie, Berlin, 24 - 26 July 2026

‘Souls’ is a transmedia installation grounded in a poetic video game that reflects on the thresholds we inhabit through loss. Drawing from spiritual “death texts” such as the Bardo Thödol and allegorical journeys like Dante’s Divine Comedy, you become a soul with no memory, wandering the world of the dead in search of a teacher already gone. You help them piece their memories back together and meet the beings that inhabit this world along the way. This work was built from extended periods of residency and research journeys through sacred territories marked by conflict in Myanmar and the Indian Himalays.

CURRENT/2026

SIMULACRUM - Blue Temple Series Book Nr.1

196 pages, author’s edition, 200 copies

The first in a new series from Blue Temple, exploring the architecture and ideology of Thabarwa, a Buddhist community in Yangon, Myanmar

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ARCHIVE / 2025

At Night, VIDEONALE.20 Prologue, Schaumburg, Bonn, 11 April - 18 May 2025

Protocols, Pandora Gallery, Berlin, 09 May 2025

Snakes And Ladders II, Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin, 25 April 2025

SKENE - Act III performance, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, 28 March 2025

Materia Architectures, Césure, Paris, France, 23 March - 26 April 2025

Dissolution Painting, Kleiner Rundgang, UdK Medienhaus Galerie, Berlin, 14 February 2025

SELECTED WORKS

Snakes And Ladders, Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin, 08 November 2024

Memory Cluster, Rundgang, UdK Medienhaus, Berlin, 19 - 21 July 2024

SKENE - Act II performance, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, 03 November 2023

The Snake Charmer, Factory Lisbon, 14 November 2023

On Infinity, TAF, Athens, 08 December - 17 December 2022

SKENE performance, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, 02 December 2022

Passagens XIV, Cosmos, Lisbon, 22 November 2022

Waking Up In A World, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, 12 August - 12 November 2022

In Utero, Útero - Casa d’Arte, Lisbon, 30 March - 30 April 2021

Dark Atlas, Mute Art Project, Lisbon, 28 March - 17 May 2019

De Onde Para Onde, ISEG, Lisbon, 28 May - 24 June 2015

PUBLICATION

publication

author’s edition

english / portuguese

2020

International Design Awards IDA 2022 winner, Bronze - print-Books

The exhibition book. Works and research, 2014–2019

AKASHA, 2019

interactive generative installation