Biography

Teresa Murta - artistic name of Teresa Costa Gomes - studied at ESAD.cr – School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha, where she completed her degree in Fine Arts. Exhibits regularly in Portugal and abroad, currently lives and works in Berlin.

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The main theme of her work is the process of painting as a reflex action of the conscious and unconscious - its infinite layers, orders and processes, as well as the confrontation of herself with the void of the canvas. The semi-automatic paintings prove this common place/state between both. This dialogue simultaneously brings to the surface the “subject” (theory), the “feeling” (empathy) and sensation (action) and especially the “how” all are processed and finally delivered as a final image.

Her work is, ultimately, a digestion of reality, of context: time and place - as a result of her own experience of them. Consequently - the imaginary is constantly changing, as is the world around us.

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Themes such as: abstraction via decontextualization and the symbiosis and/or contrast between the natural and the artificial have been some of the pillars of her most recent work.

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