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"This ‘Untitled’ painting exemplifies the gathering impulse that is the source of the artistic practice of Ana Santos (Espinho, 1982). The artist has simply painted on an MDF board found in the street, giving it new life.
The materials and objects that Santos regularly brings into her studio, such as scenery paper, balsa wood, rearview mirrors and fabrics are mostly ephemeral. The artist slightly transforms them through processes of cutouts, collages and paintings, thus showing the physical relationship established with them during their stay at her studio. This practice implies fully accepting chance and deliberately replacing the idea of manipulating materials with the notion of collaborating with those materials.
Santos’ work recalls the historic moment of ‘arte povera’ and the use of poor materials as a way to denounce European consumerism marking the decades following the Second World War. Likewise built from remnants of our material culture, her work offers both an expression of its fragility and its surviving energy."