As part of Dia de Portugal
10 June 2019
Embassy of Portugal in Poland
Poselska 28/30
Warsaw

In 2019, I was invited by the Portuguese Ambassador, Luís Cabaço, to exhibit my Lisboetas projects as part of Dia de Portugal. From the press release:

“Lisboetas” is a series of portrait paintings of Lisbon-based artists and writers, developed from drawings which were exhibited in 2018 in a solo exhibition in Amadora, Portugal. The idea for the project came from the artist’s desire to bring to light artists more- and lesser-known outside Portugal. The portraits are her personal impressions of Lisbon and those lisboners who walked its streets and forever imprinted themselves in the memory of the city and its inhabitants. They have been painted from the perspective of a foreigner, an outsider, whose perception of the city is a patchwork of fragmented spatial memories, colours and moods. There is no linear way of getting to know a place and its history; it is an accidental collage of places and information, a bespoke map painted in our minds with more or less detail and accuracy. These lisboetas, such as Amália Rodrigues, Mário Cesariny and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, amongst others, are intertwined with the landscape because they are an inherent part of the city, traceable and almost tangible on many a street corner and alleyway.