Circles Of Hope (Totem) from YUP Lazer engraved wood finishing Hand Signed and with Certificate Of Authenticity Edition of 5 - The Circles Of Hope Series comes directly from a series of worked developed by YUP since 2016 that started with large scale murals around the globe, from Paris, Lisbon, NY, Djerba, Stockholm, Washington DC, Lisbon, Lagos, amongst others as well several exhibitions worldwide. Coming from his Argentinian Pacha mama background mixed with the urban scapes of Europe YUP brings to the urban scape these totemic images and rituals, with a concept of visual seismography and urban acupuncture, remembering the concrete city from its ancestors background and it's connection with the secret rituals of Mother Nature. - YUP is a Visual Artist in Lisbon. Working professionally for Contemporary art galleries, Museums and Professional brands including Nike, Carhartt, Pelle Pelle, Super Rad Toys, Redbull, Gatorade, Musicbox Lisboa, Digit Magazine, Dif Magazine, Fused Magazine, Victionary Books, A Better Tomorrow, Diario de Notícias, Geração C , Idea Magazine Taiwan, Público, Revista Visão, Xfuns.Magazine And Many others... - As a Visual artist and working in the contemporary art field the research relates to the idea of visual seismog- raphy, assessing surges concerning new natural, social and cultural paradigms. This artistic production in- terweaves with his research which involves matter and anti- matter, and engages the body, the landscape and technology to address questions concerning climate changes, biosphere, extinction, transhumanism and the anthropocene. He has participated in several exhibitions, both solo and collective including Uma Lulik_ [Lisbon]; Dimora Artica [Milan]; La Casa Encendida [Madrid]; MAAT Museum [Lisbon]; Berardo Museum [Lisbon]; Vellum/LA, [Los Angeles]; Wilhelm Hack Museum [Ludwigshafen]; Candy Shake Gallery, [Milan]; Gr-und [Berlin]; Porta33 [Madeira Island]; Hawaii-Lisbon [Lisbon]; Hangar [Lisbon]; Balcony [Lisbon]; Pivô [S.Paulo]; Museu d’Història de Catalunya [Barcelona]; Art Rotterdam [Rotterdam]; Cidade das Artes Museum [Rio de Janeiro]; MAH Museum [Azores]; Quartier General, Centre d’art Contemporain [La Chaux-de-Fonds]; Aeroplastics Contemporary [Brussels]; Petra Gut Contemporary [Zurich]; TAL Gallery [Rio de Janeiro]; ArtRio [Rio de Janeiro]; Pena Palace [Sintra]; Galeria Graphos [Rio De Janeiro]; Museu do Côa [V.N. Foz Côa; Hifa, Harare International Festival Of Art [Zimbabwe]; Câmara Municipal do Porto [Porto]; Museé d’Art Moderne [Luxembourg], Miami Basel [Miami]; National Building Museum [Washington DC]; P28 [Lisbon] among others. Paulo Arraiano has also participated in several artist residency programmes and festivals, such as Loop [Barcelona]; Hangar (Lisbon); Fuso Videoarte [Lisbon]; Walk & Talk [Azores]; Transforma [Torres Vedras]; LAC [Lagos] Dutch Design Week Loop [The Netherlands] among others. He is represented in both public and private collections such as CAC Málaga Museum, [Spain]; Luciano Benetton Collection [Italy]; Quartier-General Arts Center [Switzerland]; Museu de Angra do Heroísmo [Azores]; Sztuki Zewnetrznej Foundation [Poland]; Travessa da Ermida [Portugal]; Pestana Group [Portugal]; MARCC [Portugal]; Fundação D. Luís / Museum Quarter [Portugal] and several private collections.