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Duarte Burnay's work respects the relationship between Nature, the human being and their ephemerality, questioning the place of humanity in construction of the future. He explores the importance of curiosity and mystery as unique and essencial dimensions of evolution. In his works, he uses oil painting as a medium to combine various objects altered by humanity to convey a transfiguration and renewal of its identity, representing them in compositions that challenge the viewer's perception. It is evolution, the fruit of what history offers, in communion with the ephemerality of a present that feeds a future that we cannot yet see, but can imagine. On large format canvases, combines human elements in contrast to natural elements by resorting to the repetition of patterns that distort and expand out of the canvas (e.g. diptych 4 busts and 5 rocks). The ability to revive history through the interactivity between new conceptual positions and material achievements is an invitation to keep moving forward. "the reason to learn history (...) to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies" (Harari, 2016)