Ut Pictura Poesis - Poetry recital by Diogo and Eva Doria

Ut Pictura Poesis

Poetry recital by Diogo Doria and Eva Doria

The expression used by Horace, ‘Ut Pictura Poesis’ — as painting, so is poetry — evokes an ancient affinity between these arts, already intuited and later celebrated by Plutarch when he recalls Simonides of Ceos: ‘Painting is silent poetry, poetry is painting that speaks.’

In this recital, words meet images in the same sensitive territory. The poems presented are by authors who also inhabit painting, visual artists who transport the poetic images they experience on canvas into verse. Although poetry does not have a structural meaning, it follows the principle of similarity, which takes shape in the form of visual poems.

Diogo Doria and Eva Doria interpret this crossing between the visible and the invisible, where the abstraction of the word dialogues with the imagination of the image, and poetry becomes a space for contemplation.

Diogo Doria

An actor and director since 1975, he has participated in numerous films and theatre projects, with a special focus on the films of filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, with whom he has collaborated on fourteen feature films. As a theatre director, he develops his work on text and the word in poetry.

Eva Doria has a degree in theatre from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and also completed a course in performing arts at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais. She attended the theatre school at the Centro de Artes de Lisboa and the ACT acting school. She has given several readings and participated in theatre and film projects, and is often invited to give poetry readings at Casa Llansol.