The exhibition From the mark of teeth on the tongue, by Afonso António, is part of the Young Creators Programme of Árvore - Cooperativa de Atividades Artísticas and brings together a set of works that emerge in the ambiguous territory between drawing and painting as fragments of personal experiences filtered through the imagination of the subconscious. The subconscious is active matter that makes memories, fears and impulses visible, separating itself imaginatively from the author through artistic gesture. The externalisation of these images suggests a process of desensitisation and, simultaneously, a ritual of absolution in the face of i