Painting by Vera Midões

In a ludic, surreal, and contradictory universe, Midões captures fleeting instants of life—sounds, images, and sensations crossing everyday life. Her language oscillates between the real and the imaginary, the visible and the hidden. As a space of transformation, with a primitivist approach, she shapes chaos with tensions, proposing paradoxes, expressive and symbolic figures. The process is experimental—layers, collages, and gestures—reveal fragmented narratives guided by the unconscious. Under a surrealist influence, as a gesture of automatism, a form of delirium and deconstruction in the effigy of relationships between the human, the animal, and the fantastic, she creates a poetry painting that transcends representation. Each work captures the transience of existence—a game without fixed rules, where art and life fuse into endless transformation. Recent exhibitions include The Things That Go Away Never Come Back, Dialogue Gallery, Lisbon, (2025); Flanco Izquierdo, Gerhardt Braun Gallery, Madrid, (2024) and Estampa, Art Fair, Madrid, (2024). Her work was acquired by the Vasco Collection in 2024 and Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson in 2022.