Installed over the lake in Serralves Park, PONTE, a work by Pedro Cabrita Reis, revives the romantic tradition of 19th-century gardens, where human intervention created picturesque settings with grottos, waterfalls, suspension bridges, viewpoints, and other evocative structures.

This new bridge, conceived as a “contemporary ruin”, explores the idea of passage between different landscapes and, symbolically, the passage of time. PONTE reveals a transformation that moves from the pure geometry of modernism to the dramatic intensity of forms that evoke the baroque grotesque. As a broken bridge, it suggests a state between disintegration and sedimentation — a space suspended in an undefined time, where memory and matter coexist. More than a functional or decorative intervention, the work invites contemplation and reflection on space, time, and impermanence, integrating seamlessly into the natural and historical ecosystem of Serralves Park.

The book PONTE gathers the complete documentation of the process — from study to realization — featuring an essay by Carlos Vidal, artist, critic, and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and a preface by Philippe Vergne, Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

The book presentation will feature Pedro Cabrita Reis and Carlos Vidal, author of the essay included in the publication.