André Romão, one of the most important Portuguese artists of the generation born in the 1980s, is presenting his first solo exhibition at the Serralves Museum. Titled Calor (Heat), the exhibition takes up the fundamental themes of the artist's research, which encompasses concepts of hybridisation and metamorphosis, and reinforces a notion of fluidity and horizontality between the natural and the artificial, the organic and the human and animal, or the human and the machine.

Romão transports us to a disturbing environment where a set of sculptures and posters used in blood donation campaigns question the notion of the normative body and the guidelines of our contemporary societies that establish standards of conduct that often exclude those who do not fit into traditional categories of identity and behaviour and do not belong to hetero-cis-normative models. Starting from this idea, the exhibition opens the way to new perspectives and levels of awareness in our relationship with the Other, the one who is different, who inhabits the world in a different way.