This publication is one of the outcomes of Anne Marie Maes’ residency at the Casa de Mateus Foundation. It complements the exhibition ‘Matter of Kinship’ / ‘Matéria de Afinidades’.

“We are contaminated by our encounters; they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds – and new directions – may emerge.”
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World