Patrícia Oliveira (born in 1983) derives from sculpture, from the place of belonging and from the relation of the body with the natural agents of that same place. In her work, the journey is more important than the destination and what she presents to us integrates the (bio) complexity of nature and the mastery of materials and technologies. In a study that begins with performance and ends with video, the lamprey, emblem of the Alto Minho, where it spawns, is the object of study and contemplation. Patrícia Oliveira works on the borders of confrontation with the end of the animal’s life once it reaches its course. She studies them, discovers them, sculpts them. In PALIMPSESTS the artist combines the fullness of the animal's body shapes, sometimes in plaster, ceramics, soap or wool, with the emptiness of blown glass.