maismenos - Resistance #8

This is a rare opportunity to acquire an original piece from the ±MaisMenos± project.

Hand-painted with stained-glass paint on aluminum, this piece reveals a dual visual reading when viewed through lenses of different colors, creating a shifting perception of the same message. Part of a series of 10 works entitled Resistance, it reflects a world and a society increasingly shaped by division, ideological tension, and opposing narratives.

More than a static object, the piece invites the viewer into an unstable field of interpretation, where meaning changes according to the lens through which it is seen. In that sense, it becomes both image and metaphor: a visual statement about polarity, perspective, and the fragile construction of truth in contemporary life.


Miguel Januário is a Portuguese artist born in 1981. He holds a degree in Communication Design and is currently pursuing a PhD in Design at FBAUP. He worked at the cultural intervention space Maus Hábitos and served as Art Director at Ivity Brand Corp. He is currently Head of Art for Sustainability at CEiiA. He is a member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). He is the creator of ±MaisMenos±, an intervention-based project that has become a national and international reference in urban art. He is represented by Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon.

In parallel, he is also the creator of KissMyWalls, a project with a strong urban component related to graffiti, advertising, writing, and intervention, which includes several artistic heteronyms, including Caos and Mr. Dheo, each with its own distinct visual identity and aesthetic. He has exhibited and/or worked with internationally renowned artists such as Vhils, Shepard Fairey (Obey), Futura, Felipe Pantone, Barry McGee, Swoon, AddFuel, Wasted Rita, Icy and Sot, Bordalo II, Mosaik, RAM, Gonçalo Mar, Nomen, among many others.

He has produced innovative and thought-provoking works in both indoor and outdoor contexts, across a wide range of media, from video to sculptural installations, and from painting to performance. In addition to numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project has also been presented in solo and group exhibitions in a variety of institutional contexts, namely at Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon, 2010), MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (Elvas, 2011, 2014), Underdogs Gallery (Lisbon, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília, 2014), Museu do Côa (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, 2015), Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais (Bragança, 2015), MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda (Lisbon, 2016), Museu José Malhoa (Caldas da Rainha, 2016), MACRO – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Rome, 2016), Galleria Wunderkammern (Rome, 2017), Celaya Brothers Gallery (Mexico City, 2018), Arco Lisboa (Lisbon, 2018), WTF Gallery (Bangkok, 2018), Interferências MAAT (Lisbon, 2022), as well as major art festivals and events such as Walk&Talk Festival (São Miguel, Azores, 2011), Guimarães European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, 2012), La Tour Paris 13 (Paris, 2013), Festival de Lãs (2014), Esporo (Proença-a-Nova, 2022), Nuart Festival (Stavanger, 2014, 2017), TrashPlant Festival (Tenerife, 2018), Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, 2018), Forgotten Project (Rome, 2016), Iminente Festival (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), Emergengy Iminente Festival (2020), Iminente Festival Rio de Janeiro (2019), Iminente Festival London (2017), Iminente Festival Marseille (2022), Alter Ego Macau (2018), Mulheres Saramaguianas with Centro Português de Serigrafia and Fundação José Saramago (2022), Esporo (2022), NEBFest Brussels (2022), and Cáceres Abierto (2023).

±MaisMenos± was also the subject of two TED talks, at TEDxLuanda (Luanda, 2014) and TEDxPorto (Porto, 2015), as well as other public and academic lectures.

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This is a rare opportunity to acquire an original piece from the ±MaisMenos± project.

Hand-painted with stained-glass ink on aluminum, this piece reveals a double visual reading when viewed through lenses of different colors, creating a mutable perception of the same message. Integrated in a series of 10 works entitled Resistance, it proposes a reflection on a world and a society increasingly marked by division, ideological tension, and opposing narratives.

More than a static object, the piece invites the observer to enter an unstable field of interpretation, where meaning changes according to the filter through which it is seen. In that sense, it becomes simultaneously image and metaphor: a visual statement about polarization, perspective, and the fragile construction of truth in contemporary life.


Miguel Januário is a Portuguese artist born in 1981. He holds a degree in Design of Communication and is currently pursuing a PhD in Design at FBAUP. He worked at the cultural intervention space Maus Hábitos and as artistic director of Ivity Brand Corp. He is currently Head of Art for Sustainability at CEiiA. He is a member of the PCP. He is the author of ‘±MaisMenos±’, a intervention-based project that has become a national and international reference in urban art. He is represented by Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon.

Alongside, he is the author of KissMyWalls, a project with a strong urban component related to graffiti, advertising, writing, and intervention, which includes several artistic heteronyms – Caos, Mr. identity and visual aesthetics. He has exhibited and/or worked with internationally renowned artists such as Vhils, Shepard Fairey (Obey), Futura, Felipe Pantone, Barry McGee, Swoon, AddFuel, Wasted Rita, Icy and Sot, Bordalo II, Mosaik, Ram, Gonçalo Mar, Nomen, among many others.

He has produced innovative and thought-provoking works in both indoor and outdoor contexts, across a wide range of media—from video to sculptural installations, and from painting to performance. Beyond numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project has also been presented in solo and group exhibitions in a variety of institutional contexts, namely at Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon, 2010), MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (Elvas, 2011, 2014), Galeria Underdogs (Lisbon, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília, 2014), Museu do Côa (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, 2015), Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais (Bragança, 2015), MUDE–Museu do Design e da Moda (Lisbon, 2016), Museu José Malhoa (Caldas da Rainha, 2016), MACRO–Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Rome, 2016), Galeria Wunderkammern (Rome, 2017), Celaya Brothers Gallery (Mexico City, 2018), Arco Lisboa (Lisbon, 2018), WTF Gallery (Bangkok, 2018), Interferências MAAT (Lisbon, 2022) and major art festivals and events such as Walk&Talk Festival (São Miguel, Azores, 2011), Guimarães European Capital of Culture (Guimarães, 2012), La Tour Paris 13 (Paris, 2013), Festival de Lãs (2014), Esporo (Proença-a-Nova, 2022), Nuart Festival (Stavanger, 2014, 2017), TrashPlant Festival (Tenerife, 2018), Roskilde Festival (Roskilde, 2018), Forgotten Project (Rome, 2016), Iminente Festival (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), Emergengy Iminente Festival (2020), Iminente Festival Rio de Janeiro (2019), Iminente Festival London (2017), Iminente Festival Marseille (2022), Alter Ego Macau (2018), Mulheres Saramaguianas with Centro Português de Serigrafia and Fundação José Saramago (2022), Esporo (2022), NEBFest Brussels (2022), Cáceres Abierto (2023).

±MaisMenos± was also the subject of two TED talks, at TEDxLuanda (Luanda, 2014) and TEDxPorto (Porto, 2015), as well as other public and academic lectures.