Maria Pratas x Sal AtelierThe Collaborative Collection SALOIAS

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SALOIAS is a collaborative collection by Maria Pratas and Sofia Albuquerque (Atelier Sal), presented for the first time at Lisbon Design Week. Positioned between art, design, and material research, the project unfolds as a dialogue between two distinct practices: textiles and ceramics.
At its core, SALOIAS evokes a shared formal memory within a universe of women. This encounter informs both the name and the collection itself, a territory where form, function, and embodied knowledge converge. The pieces summon this lineage through their volumes, engraved traces of the everyday, and vivid colors, establishing continuity between ancestral practices and contemporary feminine expression.
Ceramics, as structure and permanence, intertwine with textile construction, where the thread travels and connects everything. Rather than dissolving into each other, these languages maintain their autonomy, creating a dynamic balance between restraint and expansion.
Sofia Albuquerque’s refined approach is subtly expanded by Maria Pratas’s intervention, which introduces texture, density, and chromatic intensity. These elements do not function as ornament, but as transformative forces that shift the visual and tactile reading of each piece. The works inhabit a space between object and body, where form suggests action and movement. Each piece exists in a state of continuous negotiation, firm, yet open. They are not a synthesis, but an expansive field of relations.
SALOIAS also proposes a reflection on a continuous and rooted feminine presence, not as narrative but as material condition, a resilient force inscribed in the act of making itself. Presented in a context that embraces expanded material practices, SALOIAS positions itself in a fluid territory between sculpture, object, and material research.