FROM ROOTS TO ROUTE

Progressing or moving forward to a point or of completion…?

“Where are you from?” A simple question but one that in today’s world of movement can have multiple responses. Where a person is from might mean where he or she was born, grew up, or currently lives….

How I navigate my life as an artist…

Adaptation and acculturation I guess. Assimilation and of course “transnationalism”. But these words, however, doesn’t stop feeling like an outsider… Assimilation and transnational lifestyles are not for me incompatible and today, living transnationally may become the rule rather than the exception.

Because “Home” is a concept that integrates many levels of meaning and emotion …

Porque “Afinal , a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir.”

Fernando Pessoa

After all, the best way to travel is to feel

“Celina’s painting reveals, in the composition of her works, an exemplary sensitivity that, associated with a great power of synthesis, both in color and elements, denounces an extraordinary mastery of pictorial language. In practice, Celina explicitly explains SPACE, where apparent DISTANCE is the main element, a space with great symbolic charge, where “the observer” is “forced” to walk to find the “silent emptiness” that the painter invents to completely fill her canvases. With a sober and safe color palette, rich in developments that give us the almost mysterious depth to be able to walk to the imperceptible horizon, this vibrant space where you feel the company of a grateful loneliness.”

José Cândido – Pintor

“A pintura de Celina revela, na composição dos seus trabalhos, uma sensibilidade exemplar que, associada a um grande poder de síntese, quer na cor quer nos elementos, denuncia um extraordinário domínio da linguagem pictórica. Na prática, Celina explica de forma explicita o ESPAÇO, onde a DISTÂNCIA aparente é o elemento principal, um espaço com grande carga simbólica, onde “o observador” é “obrigado” a caminhar para encontrar o “silencioso vazio” que a pintora inventa para preencher completamente as suas telas. Com uma paleta de cores sóbrias e seguras, rica em desdobramentos que nos dão a profundidade quase misteriosa para podermos caminhar até ao imperceptível horizonte, esse espaço vibrante onde se sente a companhia de uma grata solidão.”