Pedro Moreira (Porto, Portugal) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans ceramics, digital media, and performance. Deeply influenced by the storytelling traditions of fantasy and role-playing games, particularly Dungeons and Dragons, Pedro’s work bridges the realms of digital worlds and physical artifacts. Early influences from Carl Jung’s exploration of archetypes and mythology, along with the speculative, labyrinthine narratives of Jorge Luis Borges, have been constant threads throughout Pedro’s work, shaping a unique perspective on how stories and symbols connect across real and imagined worlds.
Pedro’s interest in world theology and ritualistic practices has been present since childhood, growing up in a Mormon household, which fostered an early fascination with the sacred and the symbolic. This interest, coupled with the influence of thinkers like Jung and Borges, informs Pedro’s current visual expression. The ceramic pieces often resemble archaeological relics from fictional civilizations, where ritualism, theological symbols, and speculative fiction come together to challenge conventional understandings of history, time, and society.
In the solo exhibition Perpetual Motion Machine at Galeria da Boavista in Lisbon (2024–2025), Pedro presented the final chapter of a speculative narrative describing life in "Domain," a virtual and terraformed reality created in 2017. This fictional universe explores the existence of four "tripplesapiens" inhabiting a world where death is a process of reappearance, reflecting on themes of spirituality, political polarization, and entropy. (Galerias Municipais de Lisboa)
