BoCA Sub21 is a participatory and experimental project in which a group of young people between the ages of 16 and 21 follow the biennial’s programming and the issues it may raise. In 2025, two groups were formed, each in one of the biennale’s cities: Lisbon and Madrid.

From this artistic and reflective laboratory, in constant relation to the dynamics of the biennial, comes the creation of a transdisciplinary artistic presentation that will take place in each of the cities, celebrating the identities of each group and the intersections between them.

“Analogy of a Wait”
In Lisbon, the participatory project sub21 presents ‘Analogy of a Wait’, a reflection on waiting as a driver of desire, resistance and hope. What does it mean to wait? What do we wait for and why? We fight against waiting and it changes our time. We embrace waiting and it changes our space. In waiting and through waiting, ‘unreal paths’ open up. This performance is the result of two months of sharing during the BoCA Biennial, where a meeting space was created, a moment when we waited for the world to change; for our gaze to be different; for love to be everything; for the war to end; for work to come; that the sun would not set; that the hour would pass; that the minute would end; that the dream would be fulfilled because tomorrow always comes, even if it is hard to wait for it.