My practice explores painting as a modular structure built through translucent layers.
Works function both as autonomous objects and as adaptable systems responding to space.
Infinity
A modular painting project based on the principle of openness and variability.
The core is a series of individual paintings, autonomous units, that can be combined into larger arrangements, resembling a mosaic or a system of tiles. The composition has no final version: it can be expanded and reconfigured depending on the space.
The project refers to an architectural context - particularly to the tradition of azulejos, present in Portuguese public space.
Variables
In the Variables I work with a limited set of forms treated as elements of a system.
The paintings are created in small series. Each series is a variation on coherent structures - the relationships between the shapes, their scale, arrangement or the color palette change.
I am interested in the moment when even a minimal alteration leads to the emergence of a new, autonomous composition.
Constelations
Large scale modular compositions
The unified compositions built from smaller canvases. Though divided, the structure allows only one possible configuration.
The modular division remains visible. Fragmentation becomes a method of building unity.
Formas e camadas - Série de gravuras
Formas e camadas were created as an autonomous series of prints, while at the same time functioning as a map of my painting practice.
The works reveal the structure of the paintings - individual forms, layers and relationships that, in painting, become condensed and multiplied. Here, printmaking acts as a kind of instruction or record of the process, allowing to trace the mechanics behind the creation of the paintings.
Archive
A presentation of selected individual works that are not directly part of any particular series but still form an integral part of my body of work.
Thanks to the concise and consistent nature of my practice, these paintings form its core and can be incorporated into most of the systems described above, if new works emerge that further develop the concepts presented in them.
Thanks to the concise and consistent nature of my practice, these paintings form its core and can be incorporated into most of the systems described above, if new works emerge that further develop the concepts presented in them.