The pregnancies of the artist’s daughters are crystallised in the works, their essence distilled into letters harmoniously woven into the plants and flowers. These symbolic gestures, both delicate and assertive, chart a journey that is at once biological and psychological.
The joyous presence of new life emerges in the most recent paintings, signalling a life trajectory yet to come.

The artist’s faith is central to this body of work, expressed in the recurring motif of a white flower crowned with a yellow glow— a subtle yet powerful homage to Our Lady.
This emblem becomes a channel for gratitude, reflecting the artist’s spiritual journey through delicacy and metaphor, and creating a dialogue between the earthly and the transcendental.

The formal language of the collection is equally evocative. Vibrant, pulsating colours intertwine with patterns that evoke tile work, arranging elements inspired by frescoes and suggesting a historical and timeless continuity.
These stylised motifs transform the canvas into a space of memory and permanence, a home of stories that intertwine in the artist’s hands.

Executed on large acrylic canvases and enriched with fragments of text, these works mark a return to painting after decades dedicated to social causes and literature.
The artist’s description “collection of gestures” captures the essential duality of the personal and the collective, culminating in a lived experience of creative expression: a Gesamtkunstwerk of life.

This collection is not static. It is an ecosystem of narratives, symbols, and gestures that invites viewers to experience it as an ever-unfolding story.
It is a poetic act of generosity, weaving threads from Filipa Sáragga d’Orey’s own experience and offering them as a gift to the collective imagination.

Zé Ortigão, curator