Leonor Brilha

born in Portugal, 1982lives and works in Lisbon. It is immediately disturbed by heaps of an extrinsically sensations originating an indistinct magma of in consciousness and experience that fills it as if it were an empty mould, that I took faces to create my paintings. Their strokes whose initial identity is explicit, in the course of my work have changed into mere gestures announcing new types of shape and entirely free from their objective origin. Here they appear as a kind of chromatic catastrophe which disguises and distorts the physiological features of a face. It is a furious suffering and a terrified expression of victims and witnesses of something, whose effect is a cruel feeling of tragedy. These faces are composed of human and animalistic elements, all of them ambiguous because of their deformity. They are so fatherless and enigmatic that they prevent the understanding of any explicit meaning. Any effort to find out the intention behind the morphology of these creatures by means of a logical thought will fail, will fall into pieces, admitting that these paintings lead us to an unknown territory where the borders of conventional logic dont exist. The strength of the human creature is inseparable from an unconscio...

Graduation in painting in Fine Arts University in Lisbon,