On August 28, the “Handbook for Misaligning the World” will be inaugurated at the GAMA RAMA Gallery, marking the first solo exhibition by urban artist Bisner in the city of Faro. This exhibition presents a selection of works that the artist has yet to display, combining collage, objects, and absurdity with a raw, graphic aesthetic referencing the pop culture of the 1980’s and 1990’s.


Bisner is the artistic name of Alexandre Makiolke, a Portuguese Brazilian artist based in Lisbon. Since 2011, he has been developing a personal language through large-scale collage, using everyday materials – such as labels, packaging, vintage magazines, archival imagery and techniques like screen printing, stencil and analogue printing – to build compositions that convey personal memory, pop culture and social commentary, challenging conventions and inspiring new interpretations.

The set represents pieces which do not seek answers, but rather question: “What is real?”, “What is memory?”, and “What can still be transformed?”. Instead of linear narratives, he conveys fragments, visual noise and displaces characters – as if we had stumbled upon an old magazine made by someone from the future.

This series of new works blends graphic nonsense with layers of memory, producing scenes that seem to emerge from a parallel world – at times familiar, at times unsettling. The exhibition invites the viewer to misalign their gaze, to unlearn the obvious, and to find beauty in what escapes logic.