dialogues between memories constitute a series of paintings that started unconsciously through the memories of past and present landscapes.

 

Laura juxtaposes, mixes, and splits layers and layers of color, which flow into the chromatic universe where the greens sign the horizon line of the montado Alentejano — Laura present landscape; or of the Laurisilva forest of Madeira Island — Laura past landscape. 

 

The montado Alentejano surrounds the dam where Laura presently lives. The Laurisilva forest is the heart of Madeira Island and the soul of Laura's memories. 

 

dialogues between memories are the second series of paintings that Laura started in 2022, with the mural painting and exhibition: conversation between memory and imagination. These paintings are a plastic and visual essay of the intersection of the physical landscape and the landscape that constantly meets in the artist's imagination and memory.

 

«Now that I write, I think how many times, when I paint and choose the colors for the landscapes, I travel through memory and cross the Alentejo landscape that surrounds me daily and the landscapes of my past and travels.»

 

Laura's paintings are not mere representations of landscapes. They are the pictorial materialization of the places of its co-creation, which, through a formal abstraction, makes the imaginary and the real intersect — in the same way as an end of day and the onset of night meet.

 

Rossana Mendes Fonseca / Laura Rebelo