For Beneath Stone and Image, his first exhibition in Portugal, Younes Ben Slimane picked two of his films – We knew how beautiful they were, these islands and All come from dust – to create a profound synergy with the subterranean setting of the Cave space at Solar – Cinematic Art Gallery, a unique environment built from overlapping stones. This symbiotic relationship between film and space instigates a subtle dialogue that excavates hidden narratives of isolation, preservation and refuge.

Ben Slimane's exhibition is an allegorical representation of protection in which Solar's Cave space is the  ideal host with its stony embrace reflecting the archaic refuge depicted in the films. By exploring Ben Slimane's films, visitors are invited to dive in the parallel narratives of the gallery's 15th-century underground spaces, silently witnessing the relationship between hand gestures and millennia-old stones, resonate with their own experience. The architectural refuge and the human stories that unfold within intertwine, shaping harmonious shreds of each film's narrative fabric. The artist works to expose the deep bond between the land and its inhabitants

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