14 April – 26 May 2018
Photo Eat
Avenida Padre Bartolomeu de Gusmão 41-A
2720-426 Amadora
Portugal

From the press release:

Photo Eat presents “Lisboetas”, a series of pastel portrait paintings of Lisbon-based artists and writers. The idea for the project came from the artist’s desire to bring to light the artists lesser-known outside Portugal, overshadowed by fridge magnets shaped as Pessoa’s hat and sold to tourists on every corner of Lisbon. The portraits are the artist’s 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 drawn 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 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen,  Alexandre O’Neill and Helena Roque Gameiro 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.