This duality between denunciation and
celebration of life took shape after a
long career in education, and now
pulses through works that travel the
world—from Madrid to Barcelona, from
Paris to Berlin.
In every exhibition, whether in Brazil or abroad, her visual language—marked by
pouring, bold acrylics, spray paint, and palette knives—spreads color while provoking
questions. The gesture becomes manifesto; the color, resistance.
Montemór’s relationship with the forest is, in her words, “symbiotic.” Nature’s
abundance offers her the material and inspiration to stay balanced; in return, she
lends it a voice, turning the canvas into a space for reflection. What she hopes the
viewer feels is not a single emotion, but a layered, complex response—mirroring the
forest itself: the awareness of beauty we are losing, the strength that still endures, the
responsibility we share, and, above all, the conviction “that you are not alone in your
dreams, desires, outrage, indignation.”
To walk through Maria Lúcia Montemór’s work is to accept an invitation to
complexity. To understand that each patch of color is a territory of debate, each
pulsing cell a microcosm of life, and that within the quiet of her compositions resides
the most articulate cry. In the end, you don’t leave with just the memory of a painting
—you leave with expanded awareness, with the unsettling and necessary certainty
that, in her hands, art is not only meant to be felt—it is meant to be understood.
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