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Good Times in Lisbon: Inside MAAT’s Valkyrie Octopus

October 5, 2025 By admin Leave a Comment

Lisbon always surprises you, even indoors. After wandering the riverfront and soaking in the sunshine, you step inside the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) and suddenly you’re transported into a different universe. Towering above the gallery floor, Joana Vasconcelos’s Valkyrie Octopus unfurls its shimmering arms across the space. It’s not just a sculpture—it’s an experience, a carnival of fabric, sequins, and glowing bulbs stitched into a massive, undulating organism that seems equal parts deep-sea creature and cosmic spectacle.

Good Times in Lisbon: Inside MAAT’s Valkyrie Octopus

Walking under its tentacles feels like entering a dream. The soft textiles drape and swirl, glinting under strings of light that pulse like fairground rides at night. Each segment is stitched from an eclectic patchwork: glittering fabrics, crochet, satins, and sequined swaths that sparkle as you shift your perspective. The colors—pastel pinks, candy-striped yellows, deep blues, and bright flashes of glitter—give it a playful energy, but the sheer size makes it awe-inspiring. You look up and feel both small and exhilarated, as though the gallery has become an underwater cathedral.

People move slowly, craning their necks, laughing, and pointing their cameras skyward. Groups pause beneath the glowing limbs to pose for photos; others simply stand in silence, taking it in. There’s a sense of shared wonder in the room, like everyone is caught in the same spell. Outside, Lisbon hums with its usual rhythm of trams and tiled hillsides, but inside MAAT you are immersed in a world of light, imagination, and fabric that seems limitless.

This is what Lisbon does best—it stitches together tradition and modernity, history and boldness, the everyday and the extraordinary. One moment you’re sipping coffee by the river, the next you’re walking beneath a giant illuminated octopus that challenges what art can be. Good times in Lisbon aren’t always about monuments or viewpoints—they’re about these surprises that linger in memory, playful and profound all at once.

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