The Travelling Dolls – 2026.07.21

The Rui Cunha Foundation opens on Tuesday, July 21st at 6:30 pm, the Art Duo Exhibition “Wondersome and Peculiar Voyages: The Travelling Dolls”. The exhibition showcases the work of the artistic duo consisting of Polish artist Marta Stanisława Sala and Macau visual anthropologist Cheong Kin Man, under the curatorship of Sara Neves.

This exhibition is the culmination of several years of intercultural cooperation between the two creators, fusing artistic creation with anthropological field research. The project focuses on central themes such as cultural exchange, migratory experiences, and ethnic identity. With textiles and written texts as their core mediums, the authors employ artistic approaches to analyze the unique relationship of interpenetration between diverse cultures amidst their mobility and collision.

The exhibition space will showcase the complete creative series developed by the duo in recent years, highlighting a new series created specifically for Macau’s local cultural context: “The Travelling Dolls”. Historically a meeting point between Western and Eastern civilizations, Macau serves as the creative foundation for this new work, which utilizes lightweight, portable fabric figures to invite the public to reflect on the “body” as a vehicle of memory, while portraying human vulnerability, resilience, and cultural hybridity in a post-migratory context.

This event is co-organized by the Casa de Portugal em Macau and the Rui Cunha Foundation, in collaboration with the International Institute of Macau and the Instituto Português do Oriente (IPOR), and is sponsored by the Macau Foundation and supported by the Goethe-Institut Hongkong. It also receives the honorary patronage of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Hong Kong, and communication and advertising support from the Consulate General of Portugal in Macau and Hong Kong.

The opening ceremony will also include a public dialogue session with the artists. The two artists, the curator, and representatives of the main organizers, co-organizers, and supporting entities will share their creative insights with the audience and engage in in-depth discussions on topics such as art, anthropology, and intercultural dialogue.

The artworks will be on display until August 1st, 2026.

Admission is free.

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