This Portuguese visual artist, who, via Berlin and Porto, set up camp in Barcelona after earning a Master’s at Elisava, uses photographs, collage, maps and digital trickery for his surreal superimpositions. Geometric psychedelia add an uncanny, almost ominous quality to wistful, melancholic images of bygone eras, like in the most recent “Body Crying” series and the “Dreaming” series, where billowing pink smoke disguises iconic famous faces.
The strong theme of faces and eyes, or rather the covering over or removal of what is usually such a central visual component, lends Dourado’s creations their hallucinatory, mystical quality, revealing something new, like a strangely cinematic illusion from the depths of the subconscious. Take a look at his website for details on upcoming projects of exhibitions.
Latest Comments