Rita Magalhães Solo Show

In her current solo show, Portuguese artist Rita Magalhães is presenting works pervaded by the element of water with surprisingly lyric and crepuscular outcomes.

With the series Reflections on Water, Magalhães focuses on various images – mainly trees and plants – reflected by water. As a result, reality loses its definite outlines, replaced with a warm effect of light diffusion.

The slightest ripple infuses a feeling of movement and continual transformation, while at the same time conveying an aura of immersive silence. It captures how living underwater would sound.

For the series Enora, consisting of pictures of ports, Magalhães was inspired by the Northern tradition of the landscape and by William Turner's paintings. A port is a transitional place and water is symbolic for the perpetually transitory stages of existence. When suspended in the atmosphere as saline humidity, it functions as intimate and nostalgic curtain for visual meditations.

Water is also the element of which we are all mainly made. The images from the series We Will Meet Tomorrow in the Skyline evoke scenes as seen through eyes filling with tears filling, covering reality with emotional subjectivity.

The show can be seen until 4 February, 2012, at Galería Ana Vilaseco in Coruña, Spain.

Photos courtesy Galería Pedro Oliveira.