When contemplating the painting by Sara Maia (Born in 1974) it is hard not to reference Paula Rego (born in 1935), in the same manner that we must acknowledge her intense mastery of drawing and her power of an imagination that combines, in layers of storytelling, the urgency of motherhood, conviviality and metaphors of animal life, in paper or canvas acrylics which are a beautiful journey to our innermost selves. Sara Maia’s work touches upon the pagan, nearly obscene, of tales and legends which are almost biblical and whose message always expresses a moral statement. In her densest compositions as in those where the drawing is predominant and allow the support to breathe, the artist works a palette of light and allows us to foresee her gesture and her corporality. Her images disturb us and penetrate the unknown and unseen; they are subterfuges of the obligation for beauty and they are anti-immaculate objects.