Palma Rita
*1996 Lisboa Portugal
Rita Palma is a multidisciplinary artist who works around the idea of the perception of identity and its fragility.
Her process could be described as a speculative research that does not intend to obtain specific answers, but only questions. Some of these questions are: What does it mean to be a human being? How do heritage and social norms interact with the human body and mind? How flexible is a human being? And how does this flexibility play out in human interactions?
Her reflections are often constructed of contradictory, paradoxical layers. She complements oil paintings with other media such as installation and photography. In these paintings, she mainly depicts human figures, but excludes any context to convey the uncomfortable moment of confronting the emptiness of the self.