A Passagem para a Vida Autónoma – Maria Melancolia
Maria Melancolia was born in Luanda in 1979, but moved to Portugal at a young age and now lives and works in Braga. With a background in communication, the artist decided to extend the dialog to the image.
She began her artistic activity with analog collage and drawing techniques, and in the last 10 years adopted digital collage. In this exhibition, the artist goes back in time and returns to manual research, for the best images in magazines and getting her hands on scissors and glue. Her creative process explores themes of self-acceptance, the absurd, surrealism and melancholy, always inspired by the female figure.
She participated in several group exhibitions in Guimarães, Lisbon and Milan.
Her collages can be seen in small publications, on posters, on book, magazine and album covers, and in online content for musicians, artists and beauty brands.
The artist has already created illustrations in Portugal, for Vogue, Gisela João, Inouie beauty, Festival Multiplex and Ivy Music. Internationally for Vanity Fair (Italy), Marie Claire (Mexico) and regularly for the magazines Época Negócios and Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios (Brazil).
Parallel to her artistic work, she works in the areas of production and external relations, at Theatro Circo, in Braga.
