At Drawing Room Lisboa, a selection of Chinese ink and encaustic drawings from the NEWS STAND installation will be presented. Conceived as a response to the suffocating presence of daily headlines, this body of work grapples with the pain and anxiety of witnessing a collapsing world. For Fernandes, drawing becomes an urgent resistance to passivity—an intimate act of self-care, solidarity, and defiance. These works resemble visual diaries where spontaneous mark-making recalls Simone Forti’s News Animations: quick, restless, visceral.

What may first appear as playful sketches reveal themselves as archives of crises—political turmoil, climate collapse, forced migration, and the absurdity of daily violence. With titles like The Floor is Lava or Do We Still Have a Spine?, Fernandes balances dark humor and poetic imagery to transform passive witnessing into accountability.