Visual artist Pedro Huet presents "Karle: Letters" at the School of Arts

Karle: Letters, by Porto-based artist Pedro Huet (b. 1993) and curated by Nuno Crespo, is the latest exhibition at the School of Arts. The work invites a dialogue between filmic, photographic, and sculptural objects, weaving together narrative structures with fragmented imaginaries.

Karle is the name of a character, whose form remains unknown, who receives a series of letters reflecting on life shaped by machines, intersections between nature and technology, capitalism and labor, and the animals that accompany us. Over the course of an hour, these texts are revealed, accompanied by dizzying images in which diverse places intersect, questioning how we construct and inhabit them, between nature and residential, business, or industrial zones.

In Karle: Letters, the viewer is invited to travel through these places as if within a virtual dimension, as if their eyes were the camera capturing these images and transporting them from one environment to another.

A visual artist living and working in Porto, Pedro Huet’s artistic practice centers around narrative webs that use filmic, photographic, or sculptural objects to reflect on the structures, discourses, and imagery that have shaped how we live and organize ourselves.

This exhibition is part of the Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema: Technology/Transformation, taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2025, in Porto. The program includes lectures, film screenings, and a concert. Curated by Daniel Ribas, Inês Grosso, João Laia, José Alberto Gomes, and Nuno Crespo, the Summer School strengthens the bond between academia and Porto’s cultural landscape, bringing to the city key figures in national and international contemporary art.

The exhibition Karle: Letters will be on view until September in Porto, at the Exhibition Room of the Católica Art Center, which is part of the Portuguese Network of Contemporary Art.