Dear friends,

This week we are looking at a group of works by Portuguese painter Ana Cardoso (b. 1978) who interrogates the legacies of Abstraction within the contemporary age.

For Cardoso, painting is an ongoing performance. Fragments are continuously rotated, flipped, sewn and taken away, as the status of the ‘finished work' has always been at the centre of the artist's enquiries. 

Often based on geometry, the surfaces of these panels vary from stark monochromes to layered tones, with moments of symbols and signs. Responding to American Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, Cardoso's large-scale paintings immerse the viewer in a colour-space dense with cultural references. 

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