"Atravessei", the Portuguese word for crossing. Coming from here, to go there. We crossed oceans to get here, we crossed the waves, the land, the people, theirs and, most importantly, our barriers. Both of the artists exhibiting have crossed the same ocean, we have both come here to make something of our own. Nosso própio mundo. Here the artists bring together a collage-like way of presenting a little bit of the world we have built here. What we have brought and what we have received, we make into a new third, which is what you see here. Paulo and Anthony graduated both in 2025 from KABK in Den Haag and HKU in Utrecht respectively. They met through Ron Mandos: Best of Graduates 2025, where they both exhibited. What art can do gave us the chance to understand each other’s work better, to see the similarities and the differences. Paulo Chicareli portraits soft acts of resistance. He speaks on forms of intimacy, memory, and presence of the LGBTQ+ community in public spaces and presents them in photo collages creating an installation, a wall of protest. Bringing attention to the hostile but hopeful space the queer community have made for themselves. Anthony Chiou seeks to make something recognizable. Painting with strong bright colours that remind him of home, he depicts a cross between what was in his life with what is now through the lens of being a migrant and coming from a family of migrants. Turning into a mix of memory, imagination and a not quite real reality. Both artists work with the making of their own space, making something their own and belonging to it. Using moments of affection, captured moments. Soft yet bold ways to speak on the issues surrounding them and that have an effect on them. We both crossed the ocean to present this accumulation to you.