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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 (edition), Lisbon, PortugalTypeCollaboration