Luisa Goulart Estevao

Since the very beginning of my creative practice I have been interested in recreating vivid inner worlds, which reflect the common human being's essence. My process of work consists of collecting situations, poses, and commonplace images, recurrent in everyday life that, by juxtaposition and free association of thought, awake our emotional memory, our collective imaginary.
All the accomplished work emphasizes and questions the expectations and ideals of happiness of our era; it concentrates time and its poetic meaning in a moment, makes eternal what is inevitably transitory, creating a harmony between dream and reality, desire and fulfilment in a compensation of opposite tendencies.
Recently my concerns were redirected towards the artistic possibilities in the creation of new ways of being, defying and questioning the role of art in relation to life. After modernism's failure in providing optimism and redemption to mankind, is it still possible to conceive hopeful and idyllic art? Thus the notion of hope became very relevant to my art practice and led me to investigate how these concerns can be significant in an aesthetic context. I became engaged with a need for a shift in attitude in the art field from an unproductive approach t...