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Home — Hugo Oliveira × Vhils

2026 · Lisbon · Portugal

Home — Hugo Oliveira × Vhils — 2026, Lisbon, Portugal

Five years after Hugo Oliveira first shared his album Home with Vhils — who was the very first person to hear it — the conversation between the two practices took physical form. Vhils carved a piano, excavating a face from its black surface, and the instrument became the matrix for a limited collector’s edition of Home, re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios: a vinyl record, a custom-designed label and a laser-etched outer box, each developed from the carved piano. Two ways of revealing what lies beneath the surface — one through sound, vibration and resonance; the other through excavation and the exposure of hidden layers — bound into a single artwork shaped by sound, matter and memory. Released through Underdogs Gallery. Edition of 100 + 10 AP, laser-etched laminated wood composite, 35 × 35 × 3 cm, signed and numbered; the box’s hinges and feet are drawn from the piano’s own anatomy. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London, 2026 (Andrew Walter, Lewis Jones, Freddie Light); creative direction Hugo Oliveira and Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. The first collaboration between the two artists, launched in Lisbon in June–July 2026.

Year2026PlaceUnderdogs Gallery, Rua Fernando Palha, Armazém 56, Lisbon (edition), Lisbon, PortugalTypeCollaboration