Chronicles of everyday life, real and dreamlike scenarios, the temperature and brilliance of colors, and ordinary sensations – nothing escapes the sensitive imagination that guides Gabriela Machado’s gaze. The artist selects what most draws her attention and translates it into pictorial language. In this body of new paintings produced in recent years, she weaves together fragments of stories and memories with landscape scenes from her travels. These small occurrences – scenes or observations from life that may seem banal at first glance – gain meaning, density, and poetry when reinterpreted by the artist.
Unlike the works shown in her first exhibition at the gallery in 2024, the paintings in Ainda Bem, Atravessei as Nuvens are now more figurative, revealing a hybrid interplay that articulates not only the immediate perception of what the eye captures, but also the artist’s imagination and memory. A fantastical circus world appears in several works, including Marambaia (2026) and Ainda Bem, Atravessei as Nuvens (2026), in which the figure of the lion is depicted through imagery drawn from a childhood repertoire shared by her generation.
