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Inês Pargana is a Portuguese visual artist whose work develops at the intersection of painting, drawing, and visual storytelling. Trained as an architect, she practiced architecture for a decade before dedicating herself fully to her artistic career.
Her work creates worlds inhabited by singular, eccentric, and ambiguous female figures, protagonists of narratives suspended between the everyday, fantasy, and the absurd. Literature plays a significant role throughout her practice, both in the construction of her imagery and in collaborations with writers such as Gonçalo M. Tavares and Ondjaki.
Through the use of vibrant colours, unexpected scale, and a drawing style that is both precise and intuitive, she creates compositions that oscillate between humour, unease, and estrangement. The grotesque, exaggeration, and manifestations of the unconscious occupy a central place in her ongoing exploration of the human condition, its contradictions, and the boundaries of social and aesthetic conventions.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions, and is currently held in private collections across Europe and the Americas.
“Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche