Três Moscas [three flies] is a work conceived by four artists – André Maranha (1966), Francisco Tropa (1968), Jorge Queiroz (1966), and Pedro Morais (1944–2018) – that includes a collective installation that features sculptures, paintings, engines, objects, mirrors, light, water, and elements of performance.

Três Moscas is a construction strongly inspired by Impressions of Africa, a novel published in 1910 by French writer Raymond Roussel (1877–1933).

In addition to the installation, the project includes the miniature stage of the Bonecos de Santo Aleixo, a relic of a popular puppet theatre from Alentejo.

These figures, animated by rods, represent texts from the oral tradition, with comic and burlesque improvisations.

Throughout the exhibition, actors from the Centro Dramático de Évora will perform the Auto da Criação do Mundo [story of the creation of the world] in five shows.

Crossing references from popular, literary, and artistic culture, Três Moscas explores the foundational parameters of artistic creation in its relationship with the world and its possible images, but also with the language and theatricality of the work of art.