Terra Ser

In Terra Ser, Rita Paupério approaches painting as a place of listening and belonging. Born in 1981 in Espinho, where she lives and works, she develops a practice rooted in abstraction, memory, and the construction of inner landscapes.

In this exhibition, earthy, ochre, and natural tones emerge as both matter and language. Colour does not merely describe nature: it becomes nature. Each surface seems to hold something ancestral, tactile, and essential — as if painting carried within it the breath of the soil, the transience and permanence of matter, and the stillness of a deeper time and place.

Terra Ser speaks of this intimate connection between Nature and Being: that which sustains us, shapes us, and returns us to a deeper, more human, and more present way of being. Between the visible and the sensitive, Rita Paupério’s work offers an experience of quiet reflection and recognition, where painting is also a way of inhabiting the world with attention and presence.

The exhibition opens on 19 September at 16:00 at Gallery Hostel Porto, Rua Miguel Bombarda, 222, 4050-377 Porto.