IMPERMANENCE
Gabriela Albuquerque is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Cascais. His current research focuses on recurring landscapes and developments beyond the academic historical tradition of this genre. The almost compulsive repetition of images seeks to exalt the paradox between permanence and impermanence of our surroundings, of what is familiar to us, but also ephemeral. The option for oil paintings, which follow a centuries-old tradition, questions the continuity of certain practices that resist despite constant innovations. More than records of moments and places, they are also an attempt – perhaps frustrated – to make permanent what is ephemeral. The works shown here reinforce the idea that we are transitory, not the spaces we occupy.
- Landscapes watch us, not the other way around;
- Natural landscapes serving as reminders of human impermanence.