"The meaning of each of the works and situations on display, reactions to the idea of an orderly world as an incomprehensible place, emerges from an apparentnaive consideration of a number of contemporary dilemmas, questioning the patterns, frameworks and rules to which we are subtly subjected. We are faced with the non-normative side of existence, a universe in which sexuality and impulses are exhibited without restriction. The paintings constantly juggles and articulates stereotypes and powerful clichés which reappear in society in a mechanical, circular manner, critiquing the role of women and the ‘good behaviour’ that is expected from them: the grotesque and meaningless context, in which we live without real freedom. Thus the artist disrupts ideological representations of the world using satirical, fantastical, hilarious figurations and pictorial expressions. The narrative ambiguity of these works derives from the artist’s eagerness to explore the inherent contradictions involved in modern-day identity construction, fighting the principle of ‘good behaviour’ and the rigidity of social conventions. Ranging from the utterly banal to the ‘absurd’, these works seek to challenge the meaning of everyday existence, amid the incomprehensible and the paradoxical, countering linearity, established rules, deeply rooted norms and modes of use, and exposing the conceptual fragility of rules." - Fragment of room sheet by Pedro Faro e Sara Antónia Matos