“The expanding energy that Simão evokes in undulating curves that link complex and contrasting colors in her paintings seems to diffuse across each of her works, blurring the edges between one work and another, inviting the audience to piece together how they might all be connected. This quest to connect her paintings beyond the borders of each canvas could be likened to the search for oneness that is sought by many spiritual traditions. Simão describes this new series of works as the most evocative of “landscape” in her practice to date. She thinks about landscape more as conjuring a space or a place, as opposed to describing an existing place, and plays with traditional elements of landscape painting like using several horizon lines and never using a vanishing point. However, the use of the word “landscape” in describing this new body of work seems to be a contradiction, given that she introduces us to a new format of vertically oriented paintings in the show (inspired in part by the vertically oriented proportions of the gallery); but the artist sees paradoxes as part of a dynamic process of seeking clarity. She is always thinking about inner and outer space. Simão was thinking about nineteenth-century panorama painting when making these works, particularly in relation to how painting could capture vastness and movement before the onset of cinema.”(Excerpt exhibition text MW Paris 2025)