Eduardo Antonio (São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, 1991) lives and works in Lisbon. He holds a BA in Film from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2019) and an MA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2024). Since 2021, he has exhibited regularly, presenting his work in Portugal, Brazil, France, and Spain.
Painting is his primary form of expression, emerging from the encounter between the visible and the unconscious — an attempt to give shape to what eludes wakefulness. Coming from the Brazilian countryside, the artist brings to painting a sensibility shaped by the night, by silence, and by the symbolic density of dreams and local folklore. The presence of nature is constant in his work, evoking both landscape and a longing for places that no longer exist — places recreated in painting as spaces where memory and imagination intertwine.
His practice can be understood as a mythobiography: an imaginary journey in which personal memories merge with universal archetypes. In his paintings, Eduardo seeks to organize and condense the elements of composition in order to reveal the silent essence of each image. This pursuit of synthesis also manifests itself in his choice of jute as the main support, whose coarse and rugged texture compels a simplification of form.
Influenced by medieval and iconographic painting, by pre-Renaissance traditions, and by naïve art, the artist develops a visual universe that moves between the archaic and the intimate. His images inhabit the space between the real and the symbolic, where the pictorial gesture becomes ritual, and the image, a mirror of the unconscious.