About

“Beyond Taprobana” is a line from the Lusiad, a Classical epic poem written by the Portuguese XVI century poet Camões. Taprobana was an ancient Greek name for an island in the Indian Ocean, believed to be present-day Sri Lanka. This indefinite place, a terrain between fiction and reality, is an adept metaphor for the exhibition’s painted landscapes, rooted in concrete spaces and history, but not representative of actual places in the world.

These landscapes emerge through an interplay between imagination and the painting process, accidents and unpredictability carving new paths through layers …