Artist statement

 

From biographical annotations towards the cultural and social sphere, my work invites to a reflection on the systems of values the viewer adopts in specific circumstances and challenges their frame of reference.
Influenced by mythological stories, folklore, art history and the tradition of painting I create visual narratives that are informed by the contemporary world, and relate to measurement, touch, desire...

The context and manner of creation contribute in themselves to the meaning of the pieces.
I gradually found my expression in drawing, photography, painting and installation; initially I was interested in cinema's narratives, early video games graphics and parkour's relation of the body with the city but my view of the possibilities of art expanded. After a severe accident I set out to achieve the realism of silence - a mysterious perspective of people's inner life and of the wonder in the world.

With a confessional tone I portray a world in an organic disorder, where stories have redemptive power and are source of consolation.

Ex-vuoto e agora quiero viver

Painting and sculpture

Mixed media

2022

Feng ciao

Digital drawings

2021-ongoing

Valkyrie bloom onda de calor

Performative gesture

2019

apneia do plástico

Immersive installation

2018

Porta Portugal

Project

2018-ongoing

Dandy with body pain(t)

Intervetion

2017

I erase myself, thank you, very much

Performative installation

2017

Torre rossa

Performative installation

2016

Peter and the mountain under the sea

Wordless comic strip

2014

 

Carpet travelers

Digital photographs

2013

ephemera

Ephemeral sculptures

2012

Shortness of breath

Acrylic on paper

2010-2013

 

Many pupettini

Digital drawings

2011

Xmas pupettini

Performance

2010

Other pupettini

Collage on paper

2010

Pupettini

Drawings on paper

2010

 

Feedback

Performative installation

2010

Cauda

Drawings on the wall

2010

Estilização

Acrylic on canvas

2009

Platforms

Studies for public space

2008

síntese

Mixed media on paper

2008

Machines

Drawings

2008

Nymph

Pneumatic sculpture

2007

One line

Project

2007-2009

The fall

Mixed media on cotton

2007-2008

No man's land

Mixed media on canvas

2006

Vertice

Acrylic and charcoal on paper

2005

Untitled (explosion)

Acrylic on paper

2005

Desenhos de um copo

Caderno de desenhos

2005

Untitled

Video

2005

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