Special Edition carried out in partnership with the National Society of Fine Arts (SNBA) and the Carmona e Costa Foundation, on the occasion of the celebration of the artist's 40 years of work, marked by an exhibition at SNBA.

The collage in this artwork makes a symbolic evocation, according to the artist, of the Man and Woman designed by Dürer, according to the divine proportion, recovered from Antiquity by Renaissance painters.

Maria José Oliveira, born in Lisbon in 1943 where she lives and works, has been exhibiting regularly since 1982, in Portugal and abroad. She initially dedicated herself to ceramics, later including objects/sculptures made of natural materials, as well as drawings and photographs in her exhibitions. The presence of time and memory, their action on bodies, forms, and space, are of particular importance in her work. A symbolic journey of a mythical and original couple in a space without references, made labyrinthine by a kind of blindness evoked by Braille writing. A very original interpretation of the moment of civilization that we are meant to live, marked by the absence of values and references that could give it meaning.

Maria João Fernandes - International Association of Art Critics (AICA)