Synopsis

By means of the monochromatic combination of black and white, a symbol of what we were, the expressionist force of lines and strokes, and a contemporary touch that stirs up common memories, the Lisbon artist highlights women’s prominent role in various everyday scenes of the neighbourhood throughout the 20th century: farming, harvesting, and selling milk, raising children and looking after the family in times of hunger and hardship, bidding farewell to those emigrating to work in America...

Bio

Mariana Duarte Santos was born in 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied at a secondary school specialising in the arts and later studied drawing and engraving at university. She has held group and solo exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, USA, United Kingdom, and Ireland. As far as public art is concerned, the themes she mainly focuses on are the concepts of memory, collective identity, and local stories; stock images are therefore essential to her mural work.

Image gallery

MARIANA SANTOS (Portugal) “Untitled”