Her paintings mix up day and night, sky and land, looks and wonders, challenging the material world’s geography, perceptive and harmony, and transforming confinement into freedom, chaos into comfort. In the words of Turkish critic Osman Can Yerebakan, each of these canvases “translates Simão’s observations through the window of her São Paulo atelier into liquid landscapes,” recording “her exercises with the transformation of physical restrictions of mandatory distancing into a portal leading to a freer place.”
The book, in a bilingual edition, also features an essay by American curator Diana Campbell, who states that, when the Covid-19 virus exacerbated social viruses that have devastated the planet for centuries, rendering reality even darker and more complex, Marina Perez Simão’s art “invites us to find other perspectives, exercising our capacity to ask questions and put into practice our capacity for change.”
