ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ana Mascarenhas' artistic journey stems from a profound relationship with image, word, and the sensory experience of the world. Photography emerges as the central medium of her practice, not as a documentary record, but as a starting point for the construction of visual narratives that explore emotion, memory, and transformation.
After a long professional career in Information and Communication Technologies, Ana redefined her path and dedicated herself entirely to artistic creation. This transition does not represent a rupture, but a shift: from logic to intuition, from structure to gesture, from the visible to meaning. Her artistic practice is consolidated in this intermediate territory, where technique serves expression and not the other way around.
Parallel to photography, she develops consistent work in writing, being the author of several books of poetry, poetic prose, and photography. This connection between word and image permeates all her visual work, giving it a narrative and introspective dimension. The images do not intend to explain—they suggest, evoke, and remain open.
Rejecting rigid delimitations of genre or style, her practice is deliberately eclectic and free. Ana Mascarenhas works with both abstraction and figuration, detail and space, movement and silence. She is interested in the essence of places, forms, and atmospheres—whether found in remote landscapes, moving bodies, or inhabited spaces.
In many of her projects, the work establishes a direct dialogue with the architectural space, integrating itself into environments such as hotels, private homes, or cultural spaces. The image then transforms into presence, reflecting the identity of the place and adding a sensitive and narrative layer.
Her work proposes an encounter between reality and imagination, where photography becomes a vestige and intervention, transformation. Each work is an invitation to meditation and personal interpretation, completing itself in the gaze of the observer.
