Ana Rolaça Costa

Ana Rolaça Costa (b. 1983, Silves) is a visual artist whose work questions the ideal of beauty existing inside and outside “bodies”, in large, medium and small paintings and in small drawings/collages. Since 2008, Ana Rolaça Costa has been creating unique works that represent deformed and colorful human or animal forms, combining “traditional painting” techniques with “action painting”. The existence of “visceral forms” throughout his work is preponderant and it is their creation, development and destruction that drives his aesthetics. The importance of gesture is also evident, with the hand being the vehicle for representing different degrees of organicity and materiality. The traces of the hand/gesture dictate, in both paintings, movements, directions and orientations of the “so-called visceral forms”. Lately, his work revolves around the idea “that things can be simultaneously raw and beautiful”, expanding the spectrum of his work, not only to represent human or animal forms, but also vegetal forms.