Rajaa Paixão’s multidisciplinary approach mainly encompasses sculpture and painting, at times complemented by drawing, audio sound, and film, turned into assemblages or mise-en-scènes.

Her latest work explores sculpture as a fictive object through subjectivity and its understanding in postmodernist theory, using imagined and real narratives as a catalyst. Concerned with the nature of perception of fictive/real spaces in relation to the physicality of materials, she creates and reorders physical objects by examining divergent themes including time, space, and ubiquity.

Unlike the constructed process of the sculptures, the paintings are a spontaneous expression of the abstract fictive holding residues from the real.

Artist’s bio

Lisbon-based visual artist Rajaa Paixão is a Fine Arts PhD student at the University of Lisbon, holds a Master of Arts (distinction) in European Art Practice from Kingston School of Art, London, and a Master of Arts (distinction) in Communication and Visual Art from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.