From May 23 to June 22, 2025

 In collaboration with A Base

Flavia’s artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of body and spirit, matter and memory — a space where drawing, sculpture, engraving, and poetry become ways of being and becoming. Rather than beginning with a fixed goal, each work emerges from a need, a curiosity, a desire to act upon matter — and through it — with the body and memory, the senses and soul, in a process of continual transformation.

A central question animates her work: what comes first — the home (or the goal) or the path? This question does not demand an answer but fuels a journey. In engaging physically with materials — collecting and adapting fragments of trees from the river in Valada, engraving hand-moulded gesso tablets, drawing gestures that trace movement through time — Flavia discovers poetic spaces of encounter. These moments, often unplanned, feel like places of arrival: verses, images, or forms that reveal something essential, intimate, and true.

Her practice rejects preexisting images or external references. Instead, she embraces the tension between what can be represented and what resists representation. What is latent becomes visible — not as illustration but as revelation. It is through the work of art that the truth of being is allowed to surface. In this way, art becomes, in Flavia’s words, “the house of being.”

But being, for Flavia, is not fixed. It is a journey through time understood not as segmented or linear, but as lived duration. The artist who begins a drawing is not the same as the one who completes it. The home and the path are not separate: the path is the home.

In 2020, during the pandemic, Flavia returned to her native village of Valada after 25 years in Lisbon. Establishing her studio in the village square, she made her process visible to the local community, fostering new forms of relationship through openness, curiosity, and mutual support. Her ongoing collaboration with local residents — documented in the videos presented in this exhibition — reflects the development of a shared social and artistic space. Alongside these videos, a selection of large drawings and engraved gesso works offers a meditation on presence, transformation, and belonging — not as endpoints but as part of a continuous passage, where the artwork bears witness to the impossibility of separating house from path, arrival from becoming.