Antecâmara emerged from a fieldwork residency on the fringes of the Gerês Natural Reserve, where the artist explored the ecological and political intertwinings of the eucalyptus tree along ‘A Raia'— the frontier between Portugal and Galicia. Under the Salazarist and Francoist regimes, eucalyptus forestry served as an ideological instrument for geoengineering and profitable landscape exploitation. Today, they disrupt ecosystems, acidify soils, replace native flora, and heighten forest fire risk, after which they rapidly resprout, simultaneously creating the conditions for their life and death.