LISBON.- Galeria Vera Cortês opens Inverno, André Romão’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery.

Taking a nocturnal passage by William Butler Yeats as a point of departure, Inverno unfolds as a space of suspension, where time slows and familiar coordinates begin to dissolve. The exhibition continues Romão’s long-standing investigation into sculpture as a site of hybridity: between bodies and landscapes, material presence and emotional resonance, literary imagination and organic matter.

Marked by a wintery atmosphere, the exhibition inhabits a territory shaped by transformation and withdrawal, decay and potential renewal. Rather than proposing a linear narrative, Inverno offers a constellation of presences that operate through intuition, silence, and affect. The works evoke states of becoming and disappearance, inviting the viewer into a condition where certainty gives way to poetic logic.

Throughout the exhibition, Romão engages with themes of metamorphosis, care, and vulnerability, allowing materials to carry emotional weight and symbolic charge. The gallery becomes a threshold space, neither fully interior nor exterior, where hierarchies between the human and the non-human, the animate and the inanimate, are subtly unsettled.

Inverno proposes an experience that resists full disclosure. Moving between darkness and attentiveness, it asks the visitor to linger, to sense, and to inhabit a temporary pause from the rhythms of the outside world.

André Romão (b. 1984, Lisbon) lives and works in Lisbon. His practice primarily takes the form of sculpture and poetry, exploring ideas of transformation, mutation, and fluidity. Taking emotion and intuition as fundamental building blocks, his dream-like figures and landscapes often occupy a blurred field between the literary and the natural realms.

Romão’s work has been presented in institutions such as Serralves Museum (Porto), Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Liverpool Biennial 2021, MAAT (Lisbon), Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon), Futura (Prague), The Green Parrot (Barcelona), MACRO (Rome), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Spike Island (Bristol), and Kunsthalle Lissabon, among others.

André Romão is the recipient of Prémio EDP Novos Artistas (2007) and BES Revelação (2013), and has participated in artist residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2010), MACRO, Rome (2014), and Gasworks, London (2020), among others. His work is included in collections such as the Gulbenkian Foundation, Serralves Foundation, EDP Foundation, MACE – Coleção António Cachola, and FRAC Franche-Comté.