Paula Almozara, a Brazilian artist, returns to Galeria das Salgadeiras with her most recent work, “Céu” (“Sky”), an exhibition of printmaking, photography, and installation centered on the theme of Landscape as places of departure and arrival.

Continuing to explore technical processes that merge photography and printmaking, Paula Almozara constructs new landscapes from captured photographic images, granting them another perspective and meaning. Whether through photogravure techniques, technological manipulation, or the simple superimposition of photographic elements, Paula Almozara records moments from everyday journeys, the sky, the point of arrival and departure, the drift of discovery, the search for the uncharted unknown. These elements, matrices of a creative process in which longing (saudade) plays a leading role, always occurring at a moment marked by physical and emotional distance from a place, are gathered and interpreted according to what emerges from memory, imperfect, irregular, and subjective, like someone who “walks along the margins of the current,” recalling the verse by Pedro Ayres de Magalhães inscribed in one of the works in this series, “Céu.”

This project, initiated in 2014, was awarded the “Prémio Brasil Fotografia. Project Development Grant” by the Ministry of Culture and Porto Seguro Cia de Seguros Gerais.