Skirt Painting

Sebastião Paz Costa’s works draw from queer existence, allowing for the fleeting moment to become an object of prolonged contemplation. Working across various mediums, painting is used as a dance that releases, expands, intensifies and intertwines. A fascination with the body takes form in autobiographical figures that often seem relaxed. Drawings turn into paintings, where time transcends linearity through an amalgamation of feelings and memories, giving shape to intensified versions of reality. Surfaces are brushed with thoughtful color pallets and repetitive gestures, conversations with the self open up hidden desires, an interplay between light and shadow. Sebastião Paz Costa (b. 1995 in Porto, Portugal) is an artist working with painting and drawing. He completed his BFA in Fine Arts - Multimedia in 2019 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. He’s currently based in Esposende.