Ana Pais Oliveira

Ana Pais Oliveira seeks to eliminate the boundaries between painting and architecture basing the work around the theme of ‘the home’. In her work, painting loses its two-dimensionality and architecture is no longer habitable. The works assume different forms and unfold in a va...

Ana Pais Oliveira seeks to eliminate the boundaries between painting and architecture basing the work around the theme of ‘the home’. In her work, painting loses its two-dimensionality and architecture is no longer habitable. The works assume different forms and unfold in a variety of materials and scales. Geometrical canvas and MDF structures are often presented as mock-ups, playing with colour and line built over a process of aesthetic addition and subtraction.
Like Nadir Afonso, the artist believes less in inspiration and more in “doing” that builds and reinforces experience and knowledge. Despite this, recognises the singular chromatic study of Pedro Calapez and the experimental use of materials of José Bechara.

"My painting looks to practice a three-dimensional drift that looks to get out of place without losing its identity. I seek to create a significant interaction between what is the architectural space around us and the viewer".