Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Cascais becomes the ideal setting for a reflection on distance, migration, memory, and the sense of belonging. The works on display invite the viewer to explore the horizon as a symbolic threshold between separation and encounter. In a world traversed by conflict, migration, and profound transformations, distant shores represent interior landscapes of change, resilience, and rebirth. Each work transforms into a fluid space that opens up new possibilities for dialogue and encounter.
The group exhibition has received the moral patronage of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University and the Alsob Association.
France
Wild Look
2025 textile weaving and crochet knitting 80 x 80
This work is a vibrant, small-scale tapestry which embodies the balance and beauty of interconnectedness. The semi-abstract, geometric design in a symphony of colours adds a touch of structural interest, making it a captivating focal point.
In this piece, eartly greens meet cool blues, creating a feeling of serenity and invigorating energy, interpreting the vibrancy of vegetation close to shore lines of land under a pure blue sky and warm sun rays.
Italy
La Maddalena
2023/2026 cold-patinated refractory terracotta 20,5 x 18,5
Despite its apparent plastic immobility, this sculptural portrait reworks the theme of exile, already inscribed in the narrative of the Magdalene, who is credited with crossing the Mediterranean to escape the persecution of the Sanhedrin and the religious authorities of Jerusalem. Thus, in ideal continuity with the apocryphal tales and medieval hagiographic production, her figure becomes a symbolic conduit capable of evoking the memory of the interminable and dramatic Palestinian exodus.
Contextually, the reference to the Distant Shores takes on a broader and more metaphorical significance, which, in addition to testifying to a geographical diaspora—both historical and contemporary—resonates with a condition of uprooting and alienation, but also of revelation and inner rebirth. From this perspective, the “distant shores” emerge as a liminal space: a space of transition in which identity and belonging are constantly redefined, and where every landing can hold the promise of a new beginning.
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Pur nella sua apparente immobilità plastica, questo ritratto scultoreo rielabora il tema dell’esilio, già inscritto nella vicenda narrativa della Maddalena, alla quale si attribuisce la traversata del Mediterraneo per sfuggire alle persecuzioni
del Sinedrio e delle autorità religiose di Gerusalemme. Ed è così che, in continuità ideale con i racconti apocrifi e con la produzione agiografica medievale, la sua figura diviene un tramite simbolico capace di evocare la memoria
dell’interminabile e drammatico esodo palestinese.
Contestualmente, il riferimento alle Distant Shores acquisisce una valenza più ampia e metaforica, che, oltre a testimoniare una diaspora geografica – storica quanto contemporanea – entra in risonanza con una condizione di
sradicamento e di estraniazione, ma anche di rivelazione e di rinascita interiore. In tale prospettiva, le “sponde lontane” si profilano come uno spazio liminale: uno spazio di transizione nel quale l’identità e l’appartenenza si
ridefiniscono costantemente, e dove ogni approdo può custodire la promessa di un nuovo inizio.
Italy
CEFEO
2023 mixed media on canvas 50 x 60
This work draws inspiration from the legendary King of Ethiopia, Cepheus, husband of Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda. A constellation lying within the Milky Way is dedicated to him, alongside those dedicated to his wife and daughter—the only group of constellations in mythology devoted to a single family. Known since the time of Ptolemy, this constellation is home to one of the largest stars ever discovered: the famous Garnet Star.
Italy
Le Rive delle Stelle
2026 mixed media on canvas 60 x 60
“Le Rive delle Stelle” is an abstract work that evokes the image of a vortex in space, where light and matter seem to move together. Deep shades of blue and black intertwine with points of light, creating a sense of movement that invites the gaze to lose itself in the immensity.
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Le Rive delle Stelle” è un’opera astratta che richiama l’immagine di un vortice nello spazio, dove luce e materia sembrano muoversi insieme. Le sfumature profonde di blu e nero si intrecciano con punti luminosi, creando una sensazione di movimento che invita lo sguardo a perdersi nell’immensità.
Norway
Close, Yet So Far Away
2025 wearable Art piece: acrylic on canvas and wire 86 x 64
Division is sometimes due to separation of space but it can also be emotional separation and sometimes both. This piece reflects that feeling.
Austria
Echoes of life
2025 mixed media on canvas 80 x 100
“Echoes of Life” explores the invisible layers of human experience. Fluid veils of colour merge, dissolve, and re-emerge, revealing traces of memory, emotion, and transformation. Rather than depicting a physical place, the painting evokes an inner landscape where past and present coexist, allowing change to unfold through movement, transparency, and light.
Austria
Un mar de arena y tiempo
2026 acrylic on canvas 50 x 70
France
16 Mo.ve etc…
2025 watercolor on paper 66,5 x 86
In the parallelogram with the two primary and complementary colors, there are 16 elements forming a small “windmill” per color. Then mo.ve: in English, it means to move, to advance, etc. And in French, it’s also the first two letters of MOulin à VEnt (windmill). Finally, I added etc… to signify that it continues.
Germany
Ikonen ohne Namen (icons without names) XXXVI
2023 acrylic on canvas 70 x 50
The series „Ikonen ohne Namen“ („Icons without names“) is based on mass media imagery. Photos of crises, catastrophes and human suffering (here a photo of the refugees on the mediterranean sea) replacing each other in an endless succession. Seen today, and tomorrow- with the next hype- already pushed to the background again. Situations which continue but don’t have images anymore. Images which seem so clear from a distance but stay so blurred on a closer look as most of the faces have no name. You see their condition but you don’t see them. Floating impressions, shadows of reality, anonymous icons of incidents.
United Kingdom
Everlasting
2026 acrylic on canvas 40,6 x 50,8
Spring bursts into its Everlasting fullness! I applied paint directly to the canvas and let the movement guide and release the image.
Austria
Perspective Horizons
2026 digital painting 40 x 40
A lone figure moves through a dissolving landscape of memory and distance—caught between leaving and returning. Blues and violets carry the chill of separation, while flashes of red hold the warmth of what endures. Displaced yet becoming, the figure is reshaped by the journey: not returning to the same place, but arriving as someone new.
Switzerland
She Who Walks
2015 gouache on paper 59,4 x 33,6
A lone figure moves through a dissolving landscape of memory and distance—caught between leaving and returning. Blues and violets carry the chill of separation, while flashes of red hold the warmth of what endures. Displaced yet becoming, the figure is reshaped by the journey: not returning to the same place, but arriving as someone new.
Italy
Winter in town
2024 acrylic and collage on canvas 80 x 60
Serbia
Jedared
2026 ebru technique 33 x 26
The work explores materiality through a technique that visually simulates the processes of sedimentation and the dissolution of matter. The composition is built upon the contrast between soft, fluid lines and the dense, granular structures that saturate the lower segment. A horizontal rupture physically divides these two sections, treating the void as an essential element that disrupts the continuity of form. Through this painterly approach, the piece becomes a testament to the moment of transition and the passage from one state to another. Rather than a static image, the focus remains on the dynamics of the surface, investigating how physical distance and re-encounter materialize within the medium itself.
Serbia
Drawing a square. c.p.120
2026 mixed media on canvas 72,7 x 50
Reconsidering and redefining the unique linguistic qualities of painting, my works constructs an autonomous pictorial space. In my works, the theme is realized through a five-layer structure of equivalent arrangements. The 5-layer structure is defined as having the weave of the fabric as ±0, penetration as -2, rubbing as -1, drawing as +1, and painting as +2.
Hungary
Soul horizon
2026 watercolor pencil and colored pencil on paper 18,5 x 34,5
A human-shaped rock stands on the beach, watching the rising horizon. There is someone in the floating cloud. He looks back.
Finland
Hidden sadness
2025 acrylic on canvas 81 x 65
In the painting, the heart is hidden behind demons, dark thoughts, and painful experiences. They represent the things people often carry inside but rarely show to others. The butterflies symbolize thoughts: their colors have partly faded, becoming darker or almost colorless, reflecting heavy, negative thinking. Yet there is still a hint of color left in the butterflies. That is essential to me-it represents hope. I want to show that even in darkness, something fragile and alive can remain. Through art, I can reveal what usually stays hidden and perhaps offer the viewer a sense that they are not alone with their own shadows.
Romania
Guardian of the Treshold
2025 mixed media on paper 70 x 50
Emerging from a dense field of darkness, the figure stands at the threshold between disappearance and presence. It holds a quiet tension, where memory, accumulation, and inner structure begin to take form. The work reflects a state of suspension — a moment in which something fragile becomes visible without fully taking shape.
Poland
Natura Morta
2025 oil on canvas 50 x 70
“”Natura morta” oil painting at the ”Veils of Silence” group exhibition at the Spazio San Vidal Art Space in Venice, Italy is the essence of silence. The cloud is silently
moving through the blue sky, the yellow flower is the silent beauty of nature, and the bird had reached the eternal silence, because it's dead. The bird is already behind the
eternal veils. You can still hear the bird song&’s echo…”
Austria
Awe In The Shadows
2025 acrylic on canvas 60 x 50
In “Awe In The Shadows”, delicate blossoms and sharp thorns emerge from a network of fine, continuous lines. These lines intertwine the quiet promise of the flowers with the presence of watchful thorns. They wind their way through subtle light and treacherous shadows, leading to a threshold – between visibility and mystery, between what is left behind and what may yet come to be.
Ukraine
Rays of Hope
2025 acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 42 x 59,4
In the Universe, in nature, in all that exists, there are two sides that oppose each other: the side of light, creation, and its opposite, destructive, dark. I tried to depict these two forces in the painting “Rays of Hope”
Switzerland
How Near, How Far
2026 linen on FSC-certified stretcher, environmentally friendly gesso, pure indigo in egg tempera 75,6 x 45,6
With How Near, How Far, I begin to formulate what I call Complex Minimalism.
Complex Minimalism is a form of undivided multilayeredness. Everything essential is present at the same time: material, perception, stance, tension, depth, and the intimation of a story.
The whole does not arise from an accumulation of elements, but from their inner relationship. Every surface, every layer, every proportion belongs to the same inner order.
In How Near, How Far, distance does not appear as separation, but as a span within a whole. The moment of emergence remains present in the image: as origin, tension, and open possibility.
The materials used are natural, non-toxic, and environmentally responsible. They are not merely the support of the image, but part of its statement. Surface, substance, and stance belong together.
In the context of Distant Shores, How Near, How Far speaks of a distance that is not separation, and of a nearness that does not depend on place. The sea may be geographically far away and still remain present — not as a place of longing, but as part of one’s own perception. In this simultaneity of distance and belonging lies another layer of Complex Minimalism.
Czech Republic
Before the Light Arrives
2026 acrylic on canvas 80 x 80
Before the Light Comes captures a quiet inner landscape suspended between darkness and a new beginning. Intertwining lines suggest the movement of memories, emotions, and paths searching for direction. Shades of violet evoke mystery, intuition, and hope, like the moment before dawn when the light is not yet visible, but its presence can already be felt.
Croatia
The Reverse Side of Memory
2025 mixed media on wood 32 x 50,5
“The Reverse Side of Memory” is a clinical and emotional record of a disappearing identity. Built on a raw, scarred wooden panel, it uses three natural knots as anchors for a collapsing history. I have “sutured” the domestic light of a crocheted tablecloth onto the industrial filth of a jute potato sack and frayed black rags. These are not metaphors—they are the literal textures of a life being eaten away by dementia. In this work, the blue-grey pigments are ghosts of a former self. The title is scratched in charcoal in a feeble, childlike script—marking the tragic full circle where the innocence of the first memory meets the terminal helplessness of the last. I offer this work as a tactile prayer: a demand to look at the “ashes” of the mind and find the only thing that cannot be erased—the raw, jagged texture of love.
Serbia
Unpermanent View
2025 charcoal and dry pastel on paper 50 x 35
Unpermanent View is part of new series of work that I start to work on after massive tragedy happened in my country, when 16 innocent people lost their life while walking and waiting at railway station, in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Poland
In silentio corporis
2026 acrylic on cotton canvas 70 x 50
A solitary figure emerges within a shifting landscape where earth and water seem to merge into mist. The work reflects on wandering as both physical passage and inner transformation, with water becoming a symbol of transition, memory, and uncertain passage. Through muted blues, warm ochres, and dissolving forms, the painting explores distance not as separation, but as a fluid space of reflection and renewal. The undefined path invites the viewer to consider movement as a search for one’s own way.
Belgium
Female Nude No. 3
2025 oil on canvas 59 x 38
A minimalist oil-on-canvas depiction of a female nude, rendered in warm, earthy tones. The figure is abstracted and faceless, with soft, sculptural contours and subtle texture, capturing a quiet sense of movement and introspection.
