AGUNAMAISE REMI | «Somewhere I Remember»
24 Outubro 2025 16h00
AGUNAMAISE REMI | Somewhere I Remember
Open Studio | October 24-25-26, 2025, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Artist Talk | October 26, 2025, 6:00 PM
Artist Talk | October 26, 2025, 6:00 PM
Zaratan is thrilled to present Somewhere I Remember, a pop-up exhibition presenting the work developed during her one month long residency in Lisbon.
For Agunamaise Remi, painting is an intuitive language for what exists beyond words. Her work uses color, gesture, and texture to give form to the unseen forces of emotion and memory. This exploration is the guiding force behind the new body of paintings on view.
The city itself became a quiet collaborator. Remi found herself reflecting on how environments hold memory, and Lisbon's light and layered histories seeped into the work. She was particularly drawn to the transplanted flora—palm trees and other species introduced via colonial exchange—which she embraced as living metaphors for her own themes of belonging, adaptation, and displacement.
In this series, the seen and the felt dissolve into one another. Abstraction and figuration are not opposites but intertwined states, creating open spaces where meaning remains personal. Rooted in her Mexican heritage but filtered through the lens of Lisbon, Remi's work captures identity as a fluid state: constantly forming, dissolving, and reforming in a visual dialogue between place and self.
For Agunamaise Remi, painting is an intuitive language for what exists beyond words. Her work uses color, gesture, and texture to give form to the unseen forces of emotion and memory. This exploration is the guiding force behind the new body of paintings on view.
The city itself became a quiet collaborator. Remi found herself reflecting on how environments hold memory, and Lisbon's light and layered histories seeped into the work. She was particularly drawn to the transplanted flora—palm trees and other species introduced via colonial exchange—which she embraced as living metaphors for her own themes of belonging, adaptation, and displacement.
In this series, the seen and the felt dissolve into one another. Abstraction and figuration are not opposites but intertwined states, creating open spaces where meaning remains personal. Rooted in her Mexican heritage but filtered through the lens of Lisbon, Remi's work captures identity as a fluid state: constantly forming, dissolving, and reforming in a visual dialogue between place and self.
BIOGRAPHY: AGUNAMAISE REMI (b. 1994) is a Mexican-born, self-taught painter based in Burlington, Vermont. Her work explores the fluid and often contradictory nature of self-perception, identity, and memory through a dynamic interplay of abstraction and figuration. Working with an intuitive process, she allows each painting to unfold organically, creating layered compositions that function like personal rituals—spaces where movement, memory, and myth converge. For Remi, painting is a way of navigating the unconscious, giving form to experiences that are remembered, distorted, or concealed.
LINK: https://agunamaise.com/
ZARATAN – Arte Contemporânea | Rua de São Bento 432, 1250-221 Lisboa
SUPPORT | República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes