Cristina Ataíde's works are guided by a set of references that she has consistently pursued over several decades. Revealing an ongoing thirst for experimentation and a fascination with discovery, her work highlights the relationship between the individual and the environment, based on an idea of transcendence that crosses the human scale and the planetary dimension. Attentive to questions of perception, worked through the interaction of materiality, colour and the spatiality of elements, Ataíde brings us back to a spiritual connection with the ideas of life and travel, associating herself with a landscape, cartographic and literary imaginary. Her works manage the charm of an apparent dichotomy where the singularity of the instant, or of a special moment, is celebrated, underlining the strength of an ancestral existence.

- Under All of This #2
, 2016, shows us an image that oscillates between a starry sky and the drawing of a map that is apparently arranged in several quadrants. Red ensures the intensity and vibrancy of the visual field, while drawings of small stars pierce the support, bringing light and events to the surface. In a time outside of time, the brilliance of these cut-outs marks a singular conjuncture, where the connection to a greater reality emerges. Something that overwhelms us, awakening us to the synchrony of perception. Something that is experienced attentively, but which requires a gaze that doesn't fixate, delay or crystallise.