about ancestry – the pain of women who came before me weighs me down like stones but gives me strength.
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70 x 100,5 cm

some of the women I would like to be or to have been. When I was little I thought I was going to be the best…
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57,8 x 85 cm

almost all of our friends have children except us and me, gracefully being the hostess on the farm, but sometimes thinking about my tremendous inability.
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57,8 x 88 cm

childbirth – visceral fear. The midwife picks up the baby but the pregnant woman is just a pile of dung. A ghost is watching.
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57,6 x 101 cm

the thought of motherhood torments me. I feel pressured from all sides. And yet everyone asks me: but don't you want to have children? And soon disapproving looks start to appear.
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57,7 x 87, 8 cm

there is always a demon under the table but we pretend everything's fine, in our neat living rooms because that’s how a fine woman does.
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55,5 x 81,5 cm

nightmares, insomnia, heavy skies, but the bed is a four-poster bed as we, princesses, always wanted.
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54,9 x 81,9 cm

watching the man whose head is a real mess. I feel like running away.
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54,7 x 74,1 cm

she, who is a bunch of people at the same time and then nobody because it's all pretending. I turn my back, I don't let myself be fooled. but there are those who appreciate it, of course! It's easier to like it when the menu is varied
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54,9 x 81,5 cm

when we go to the river, Gonçalo plays with the dog while I dig my claws into my tangled grievances, ideas, prejudices and dreams, all handmade.
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57,8 x 101 cm

as far as I’m concerned you can make all the desserts you want. Now it's fashionable for cool girls to make confections. My grandmother also baked cakes; she just wasn't on instagram.
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57,5 x 85 cm

“the foreigner arrived, she comes from Porto, it seems”... They are all beatified, people who go to Mass and I am full of colour, half profane (and not meddling into other people's lives).
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55 x 81,9 cm

portrait of us at the farm, the place where there is freedom, where dreams have time and space, where life grows and multiplies.
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100,5 x 70 cm

the breasts are the eyes of the heart, I see well through them. Here machismo reigns, but it doesn't even cloud my vision.
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54,4 x 80 cm

us… from a distance it looks beautiful, up close we have spaghetti hands… neither to grasp nor to move nor to fight. What hands are these?
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57,5 x 101 cm

**the men of my life and me at the center. father paddles in eternity, grandparents watch over me, he and I together. I remain strong and independent (and almost venerated).
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57,9 x 85 cm

the housewives and businesswomen brigade, wives, mothers, influencers, decorators, spiritual gurus with the perfect house, starched clothes, immaculate skin, well-coiffed… I like them but, honestly, I find it tiresome (and unrealistic).
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57,8 x 101 cm

the life that flows from me is responsible for the creation and dissolution of the world. I am a breeze.
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57,7 x 85 cm

for every woman there are at least two men to trample her (and not only).
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54,5 x 80 cm

me, engaged for four years, and no wedding yet. I watch the cocktails floating on the horizon.
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57,7 x 87,7 cm

it is said that the clairvoyant Solomon cures illnesses, speaks to the beyond, casts spells... He uses two caldrons because only one wouldn’t be enough to serve. I enjoy it; everyone knows I never say no to a good soup.
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54,3 x 81 cm

it is said that the clairvoyant Solomon cures illnesses, speaks to the beyond, casts spells... He uses two caldrons because only one wouldn’t be enough to serve. I enjoy it; everyone knows I never say no to a good soup.
collage and acrylic paint on sewing pattern paper
57,7 x 85 cm

me looking from a distance at my friends who are mothers just to try to figure out if motherhood would be good for me or not (and without reaching to conclusions, of course!)
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57,6 x 84,6 cm

me standing outside in the place of the great stones trying to imagine the house finally renovated.
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57,5 x 84,8 cm

inevitably I am a mixture of all my ancestors and that is of extraordinary beauty.
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57,6 x 84,5 cm

do yourself a favour, little man: don't underestimate me.
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57,6 x 85,7 cm

the construction works in the house – “oh miss, don't take this, it's too heavy for you.” “Is your husband nearby? I need him to decide something here.” I’ve also paid for the house and your wages, sweethearts!
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54 x 80,8 cm

what I have always tried to show is that life has unbelievable potential and that each of us has our own time to respect.
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57,5 x 100,6 cm

when I was young I was cut in two, so I can't follow only one path.
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59 x 85,6 cm

they say that “wine preserves the flesh” ... of course, in these things, each one uses the excuse they want. Too bad it doesn't intoxicate machismo, otherwise I'd propose a toast myself.
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57,7 x 87,6 cm

everyone knows that sometimes the devil lies down on people's beds to warm his little hands on their feet because he likes these lands. But the real devil is the lady who consults a witch because she cannot bear to see anyone being happy.
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57,5 x 84,8 cm

me sitting back watching my life, completely taken aback by my choices.
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62,5 x 83 cm

with so many paternalistic smart-asses around we might still be able to learn something.
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54 x 80,5 cm

sometimes I find myself just being the young woman who lost her father (and it's tough).
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62,8 x 81,5 cm

for me to understand a work of yours I must read two pages of text and then you say my work is illustrative?
collage and acrylic paint on sewing pattern paper
57,5 x 100 cm

me being nothing of what they expect of me, being a breeze. I've always had a deep disrespect for authority, go and ask my mother. I owe obedience only to myself.
collage and acrylic paint on sewing pattern paper
57,5 x 85,5 cm

sometimes I work through a repulsion mechanism that tends to be low-level. The best thing is not to step on my toes too much. Still, there are those who do.
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57,6 x 88,2 cm

I see these constructions as unfinished nightmares… but, deep down, it's as they say: thing I eat, doesn't eat me.
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54 x 82 cm

me trying to show you what we could possibly do to each other; you not wanting to see it
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59 x 86 cm

my hands speak through an eloquent silence. Sometimes with the aid of hand sanitizer
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54,5 x 80 cm

I don't think my father alerted me to the absurd number of men who would try, out of presumption (and ignorance), to control me. Unsuccessfully.
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57,8 x 88,2 cm

do all these couples who pretend to be perfect and “happily married” try to convince themselves or me? It's just that I don't shop at this blind credulity's grocery store. I think it is ridiculous.
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57,5 x 100 cm

I don't intend to convince anyone that my life is of interest, but it is. I continue to feel a deep admiration for myself.
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57,7 x 84,5 cm

from numerous bad examples I tried to create a good one. I only regret that most of the people who preceded me suffered so much (and in silence).
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57,5 x 84 cm

the pregnancy, the children that could come out of it (all already pressuring me) and me trying to analyse the scene from afar but of course… someone had to raise a hand right in front of my eyes.
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62,6 x 83 cm

it is important for the bride to know what she wants to wear on her wedding day because, apparently, this shows how determined she is in life. I've already spent a few hours looking at dresses, I confess, but I can't choose.
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58 x 101 cm

he lies as pleasantly as possible, and his lies together form a great truth: that he is an animal and a coward.
collage and acrylic paint on sewing pattern paper
54,7 x 79,5 cm