Catarina Rosa

Preferring wire to pencil or brush, Catarina Rosa draws while weaving. Intuitively, she sews basic shapes that intertwine in an imperceptible movement, starting from a square or a triangle that becomes a circle. Despite their fixation by the stitching, the threads seem to unfold and the form seems to detach itself from the support. The paper becomes the support for a choreography of geometric forms that the wire releases from its rigidity. Catarina Rosa's drawings are discovered as the eye shifts. The viewer is invited to take as much time as he or she wishes to be carried away by the sensation of a possible unfolding of the forms. And these seem to be able to emerge from the sheet… A sensitive and very poetic work!

"With these forms she has found a fluidity in geometric structures. She deconstructs the geometric solid, liberating it from its structure to create an incomplete form free of its rigidity. She has developed an alphabet of curves. From this alphabet of forms, she combines them and creates compositions. The curves split in space, which causes a continuity of the trajectory of the wire."

Pauline Lisowski, Exhibition organiser and art critic.