PIGSY Exhibits at the 6th Dislexia Quando Arte Exhibition 2025
Wrenching Through Chaos — New Work Selected for Major International Dyslexia and Art Exhibition
I'm proud to announce that my latest work, “Wrench (No Gadgets Can Fix This)”, has been selected for inclusion in the Domlexia 6th Dislexia Quando Arte exhibition which is an international event focused on how artists with dyslexia see, feel, and build their worlds differently.
This annual exhibition, based in Brazil, brings together contemporary artists with dyslexia from around the globe. It offers a platform for work that explores non-linear thinking, emotional intensity, and alternative forms of visual language. It’s not about dyslexia as a limitation—it's about how it shapes expression. With a full schedule of activities including the art exhibition, Dislexia Quando Arte presents 33 artists from over 10 countries presenting works from visual arts to performance, photography to fashion and much more.
Exhibition Theme 2025: “Gadgets”
This year’s Dislexia Quando Arte theme is “Gadgets”. Depending on the vision of of the selected artists, the theme probes the role of tools (technological, mechanical, symbolic) and considers how dyslexic artists engage with the world. What happens when devices are meant to aid but also distance? Can gadgets reshape perception, augment capacity, or even impose new kinds of alienation? The show invites artists to reflect on tools both external (phones, tablets, prosthetics, algorithms) and internal (mental coping mechanisms, habits, heuristics). For me, my artwork Wrench (No Gadgets Can Fix This) fits into that conversation: it wrestles with the idea that no tool—no gadget—is enough to solve what is psychological, emotional, or structural. See below to read about my submission.
Wrench (No Gadgets Can Fix This)
Artist: PIGSY
Title: Wrench (No Gadgets Can Fix This)
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: Triptych, 168 cm (W) x 76 cm (H)
Country: Spain
Status: Original work
“Wrench” is a fractured map of a mind under pressure, a psychic engenhoca cobbled together from memory scraps, rage circuits, and fragile blueprints. Inspired by the concept of engenhoca as creative improvisation, the work explores how dyslexic perception and emotional rupture build their own internal machinery, not to solve, but to survive.
A dominant wrench shape now cuts across the left panel, a blunt tool hovering over the chaos, both absurdly hopeful and ominously futile. Scrawled additions like “PRETEND FRACTURES OK”, “NO GADGETS CAN FIX THIS”, and repeated cries for HELP amplify the sense of breakdown, self-talk, and resistance.
As a qualified architect and now a full-time artist, I’m fascinated by the attempt to organize chaos. My work uses gestural marks and intuitive layering to confront the beasts that gnaw at the psyche. This triptych mimics the form of a dysfunctional machine — a series of visual panels where fractured figures shout for help, fix-it slogans fail, and hope clings like a faulty wire.
Wrench doesn’t offer a solution. It offers the engine of trying. This triptych is part blueprint, part breakdown—a piece that examines how pressure, memory, and emotion fuse in the dyslexic experience. It’s visually chaotic, but intentional. A wrench shape cuts across the left panel, symbolising both effort and futility. Phrases like “NO GADGETS CAN FIX THIS” and “PRETEND FRACTURES OK” are handwritten across the surface, acting as fragments of internal dialogue and protest.
The work reflects what I keep returning to in my practice: how we try to build order from disorder and while sometimes succeeding and other time just holding things together with metaphorical duct tape.
Why Dislexia Quando Arte Matters
The Dislexia Quando Arte exhibition showcases artists who process the world through an alternative neurological framework. Dyslexia isn’t just about reading—it affects how people perceive space, form, language, and time. For visual artists, that means creating work that often sits outside traditional expectations but hits hard emotionally and viscerally.
Being part of this group exhibition means engaging in a conversation about neurodiversity in the arts, and how non-linear thinking can be a powerful creative asset—not something that needs to be corrected.
The Dislexia Quando Arte exhibition is organised by Instituto Domlexia, a Brazilian organisation dedicated to raising awareness about dyslexia, supporting neurodiversity, and creating platforms for dyslexic artists.
At the helm is Nadine Heisler, an educator and social entrepreneur with deep experience in learning difficulties, dyslexia advocacy, and inclusive education. Domlexia began as a digital platform to connect people with dyslexia, as well as teachers and institutions working in education, eventually growing into a major international art exhibition.
Domlexia’s mission is not just to show art, but to shift how society perceives dyslexia: from deficit to difference, from struggle to creativity. It works to ensure the exhibition is accessible, inclusive, and global with artists elected from both Brazil and abroad, the formats include online and physical exhibitions, and themes engage with the lived experience of dyslexia in new, critical, and artistic ways and alongside my work, this year’s exhibition features a diverse lineup of 33 international contemporary artists from 10 countries including:
Marcela Cantuária (Brazil) – Political and mythological themes explored through layered figurative painting
Rui Silva (Portugal) – Mixed media installations using fragmented text and lighting
Gabriela Novogratz (USA) – Experimental type-based works exploring emotional topography
Carlos Guzmán (Mexico) – Sculpture and assemblage built from recycled materials and memory-based narratives
Sofia Ayala (Argentina) – Textile works that reframe personal trauma through embroidery and soft materials
These are artists that don’t just work with dyslexia, they use it to create forms that challenge how we think about clarity, structure, and meaning in art.
Final Thoughts: Art Without a Fix
My work “Wrench” does provide answers and while not a manifesto and perhaps not a solution. But it’s honest. That’s the point.
Being part of the 6th Dislexia Quando Arte exhibition is an opportunity to show what happens when you stop trying to “fix” the way you think and start building with it instead.
If you’re into contemporary art, outsider perspectives, or exploring the connection between neurodiversity and creativity, this is an exhibition worth following online or viewing in person in Brazil.
— PIGSY
Exhibition Information
What: 6th Edition Mostra Dislexia Quando Arte
Where: Centro Integrado de Cultura, Florianópolis SC
When: 27 Sept - 18 Oct 2025
