Maria Manuel Lira (b. 1971, Lisbon, Portugal) is a contemporary painter and printmaker. Her practice centres on memory, time and the body, revealing fragments of emotionally charged experiences that persist and call to be represented. The body appears as both vessel and witness — marked, finite and vulnerable — holding stories that are often left untold. Working primarily in printmaking and oil painting, each piece functions as a visual diary where memory, time and bodily experience meet, giving form to the intimate, the invisible, and what is difficult to express.