"Overlapses, Riddles & Spells", a project conceived by the artist Andreia Santana, includes an unprecedented installation with works of glass and iron accompanied by two video projections, with the collaboration of Vânia Doutel Vaz, António Poppe and João Polido.

The installation "Overlapses, Riddles & Spells" conceived a hybrid and mutant space that serves as a receptacle for metamorphic objects in constant movement to be triggered through performance, poetry and sound, emphasizing the co-relation and interdependence between beings drawn from the dermatological reading of the works.

The presented film was developed with the support and within the scope of the Artistic Residency of Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery, Curtas Vila do Conde and the cooperation of Normax - Fábrica de Vidros Científicos that authorized and made available its space for the filming. The capture of images and film in industrial and manufacturing contexts during the development of projects has always been an integral part of Andreia Santana's artistic practice, since 2016. All the material recorded and accumulated to date is part of a vast archive that directly informs the artist's practice but which had never had autonomy or physical presence to the point of being materialized and displayed in exhibitions. In "Overlapses, Riddles & Spells" the footage gains integral space and contaminates the entire installation, contributing to the creation of new temporal layers and enhancing its haptic dimension.

Through the lens of a device that controls the mass production of glass consumables for laboratories and pharmacies used by Normax, in its factory in Marinha Grande, the artist documents the different material tensions of the glass during the cooling process, the aestheticization of the meta and zoomorphic forms of the manufactured objects, and its ultimate condition as a receptacle for the development and analysis of new beings and species.