The Studio

"‘The Studio’ (2013) by Jorge Queiroz (Lisbon, 1966) continues the artist’s exploration of the subconscious as the engenderer of disquieting images. Working between abstraction and figuration and using a palette of acidic colours, the artist presents landscapes and diffuse, undefined figures, as well as threads of narrative whose meaning is never explicit.
Queiroz’s world is formed by a mysterious imagery with characters and situations creating a permanent ambivalence between the real and the fantastic, and constantly challenging the interpretation and construction of a coherent meaning. This testing the limits of what is and is not recognizable or representable, together with a working process favouring the unconscious and free association that gives priority to the random and chance, explains Queiroz’s continued association with a surrealist legacy."