texts

 

"Alma comes from a generation of artists that has chosen, facing a saturated visual world, the appropriation and recycling of several images from varied sources, for the last twenty, thirty years. Yet, her inclusion in this group is controversial, since instead of the usual method of unconditional stealing of references, historic quotations and the respective recycling giving rise to a scattering of the meaning, her case has been revealing a restricted idiosyncratic orientation.

That Alma wants us to be enraptured by this childhood world seems to be, in the very act, her aim. Though it clearly shows, at first sight, a good imitation of the compulsory childish trend to write and paint on inappropriate surfaces, the author’s vandalism, only apparently innocent, goes obviously even farther.

In this fluid, transparent and theatrical space, an interaction of mutual influence, either graphic or plastic, reveals itself – between the background pulsation (staging reality) and the overlapped drawings ( paradigmatic of the childish imaginary). From this agitation an expressive strength of a nostalgic, metaphysic and a kind of lost time atmosphere appears..." 

João Viana

"...Al.Ma. rescues the essence of the passage of time, such a return to past times, winks to the romantic memory and of our childhood,.. .but a very anchored content to the present, contemporary and real..." 

 Santiago Plata

 "My work intends to represents an unchangeable memory which belongs to several people.
Different images materialize a divergent reminiscence among them that is close to the remembrance which represents, characterized by this childlike drawing.
Descriptions as a backdrop, symbolize at the same time both the onlooker and the object in a sort of a transference game"

Alvarenga Marques