Val Masferrer Oliveira

I borrow forms and rhythms from nature and let imagination transform them. My work is not about depicting landscapes, but about translating experiences and inner states into visual form.
Photography was my first language, a way to merge what I see with what I feel. Over time, my practice has expanded into painting and writing, allowing images to cross-pollinate with gesture and text. Across mediums, I return again and again to light, water, and movement — elements that carry both immediacy and metaphor.
Nature is not my subject but my collaborator. It grounds me as an individual and as a spiritual being, teaching presence and reminding me that each moment is both fleeting and infinite. The process itself is meditative: an act of unlearning, of letting perception shift and open.
Rather than fixing a scene, I aim to invite questions. Each work seeks to move beyond representation toward an encounter — between reality and imagination, viewer and image, outer world and inner world.

Central Saint Martin
London School of Photography
Istituto Europeo di Design
Inchbald School of Design
PUC Rio
UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Maryland University, USA
Montgomery College, USA

Venice, Italy - Re-Emerging, March 2024
Florence, Italy - XIV Biennale, October 2023
Madrid, Spain - International Art Exhibition, October 2017
London, UK - Ibero American Arts Award, November 2016
Hamburg, Germany - International Exhibition, April 2016
NYC, USA - The Power of Perception II, March 2014
Bologna, Italy - Variations, November 2013