Description

Date of completion of the work: 2016
Oil technique on canvas.
Dimensions: 50 x 60cm
Because portraits are, in fact, the pictorial pretext.
The space then opens its doors. And, the figure of the woman, the girl, appears high by its presentation.
The throne. The costumes. The staging.
Characters on stage, conflict of generations.
Disregard for age. The manipulation of time.
Puppets! Characters!
The relaxed, distant, present pose denounces the fragility of the human condition. Bold, it appears before our eyes as requiring contemplation, without being bulky or manipulated to heroize itself.
A joke. Stories that do not end at first glance.

(in) temporal.

It is in this relation between human figure (character) and objects that the composition is built on the support (screen), but what matters is not only this harmony between space objects, but the way the paint is put.

Therefore, the way the figures are presented proposes to be the connection of what they represent with what they are: ink, plastic material on a support, made mainly of traces and some stains, accepting drains that are only apparently accidental, as well as areas by ink cover. The brush exerts the function of a scratching, constructing, plastic result that seeks to transport us into an abstract world in the midst of scenarios with figurative and descriptive meaning.

About the Artist

Plastic Artist: Elizabeth Leite

Elizabeth Leite was born in Venezuela in 1982.
2005 Degree in Painting ARCA | EUAC.
2006 Postgraduate – Master in Aesthetic Communication
2010 Post-graduation in Teaching Visual Arts in the 3rd Cycle of Secondary Education – FPCEUP.
Represented by several Galleries: São Mamede Gallery; Gallery Nuno Sacramento, Galeria Rastro. He has held individual and collective exhibitions since 2004.
Represented in several private and institutional collections.