Painting by Ana Velez

Ana Velez primarily works with drawing, painting and instant photography, exploring identity through place, memory and the body. In the TERCEIRO ROUND series, Velez incorporates forms associated with historical Abstraction such as the square, the grid, and seriality. Drawing an analogy between the boxing ring and the pictorial space, she invites viewers to consider the latter as kind of a game. Similar to a board game, a modernist painting, in its research for purity and autonomy, establishes the white square as its limitation. It is a bounded environment, both in space and time, governed by its own logic and valid only within its defined perimeters. Ana Velez has exhibited in…e o perú fugiu!, Centro Cultural Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon, (2025); Erasure: The Cosmic Layers of Time, Galeria Belo- Galsterer, Lisbon, (2024); Torre de Madeira, Gabinete de Dibujos, Valencia, (2018). She was awarded the Millennium BCP Foundation Acquisition Prize - Emerging Talent, Lisbon, (2024) and the Fundo de Fomento Cultural Grant by the Ministry of Culture, Lisbon, (2020).