James Webb <br>There’s No Place Called Home (Belém, Lisbon) </br>

Date and time

30 Jul 2026 · 09:00

Venue

Centro Cultural de Belém

Location

Lisbon

Type

Exhibition

tuuui trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, by James Webb (1975, Kimberley, South Africa), operates as two chapters in the same story— There’s No Place Called Home (Belém, Lisbon) (2025) and Learning from Birds (2025). Most stories have, at least, a main character, a setting, and a time. The main character of this story is the song of a Woodland Kingfisher ( Halcyon senegalensis) , native to African regions south of the Sahara. The setting from which the birdsong can be heard is a magnolia located in the gardens of the MAC/CCB — Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura (Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre), in Belém, Lisbon. The other setting of the story is the space of Radio Gallery Antecâmara, in the Bairro das Colónias (Colonies’ Neighbourhood), in Lisbon, from which the same bird calls can be heard. The time of the story is now, 2025, as well as the colonial times that remain in the public spaces of today. There’s No Place Called Home (Belém, Lisbon) (2025) is the latest iteration of the series There’s No Place Called Home (2004–). An ongoing intervention with twenty years of existence and approximately sixty unique versions, it always follows the same methodology: onc