Created by two passionate creatives in 2023, the Pride Art Route is an initiative coinciding with Amsterdam Pride that gives LQBTQIA+ artists a chance to showcase their work in all kinds of surprising places around Amsterdam. One of those places this year? Bunk Amsterdam!
Pop by to take a peak at Lânginde (A Longing) by Pedro Matias. Lânginde lingers—inhabiting the many liminal zones of Bunk. From the vaulted halls to the quiet library and bustling café, it spreads like a slow-growing ecology, opening intimate landscapes of encounter and post-natural imagination. Throughout the building, three “species” of sculptural emotional ecologies appear: Coralias, Molluskulares, and Callices. Like new growth budding from Bunk’s spaces, these tactile sculptures, introspective videos and visceral colours invite you into a small “cave of desires”—a soft refuge where you can listen to the voices of these species, always on the verge of extinction, always longing for compassion.
Lânginde will be on view for two weeks at Bunk, and will kick off with a festive vernissage on Sunday the 20th of July from 15:00 – 18:00.
About the artist
Pedro Matias (1984, Lisbon – they/he) is a transmedia artist, filmmaker, and researcher weaving queer-crip ecologies into immersive worlds. Their work lingers in liminal zones—where bodies bloom beyond binaries, where tenderness meets technology. Rooted in biodiverse entanglements, Pedro conjures sensorial spaces of regeneration, kin-making with the more-than-human. Through ceramics and flock, film and sound, they attune to hybrid natures and ethical materialities. Their practice hums with eco-queer-feminist thought and new materialisms, shaped by studies in fine arts (Sandberg Institute) and philosophy of art (New University of Lisbon). Based in the Netherlands, they’ve shown across Europe—HEK, Het Hem, MNAC, and more. Co-founder of the Driewieler Collectief and the Iridescent Institute of Desire, Pedro crafts soft infrastructures for shared becoming.
