Inês Assis
From roots to blue
Espaço atmosfera m
LISBON . 09.2024
From Roots to Blue explores concepts of identity, ancestry, and resilience, proposing a reflection on the marks, references, and heritages that shape the individual journey. In this exhibition, Inês Assis returns to her origins, establishing a connection between memory, family legacy, and personal construction.
Integrating works by her father, José Assis, as a tribute and recognition of his artistic influence, the exhibition creates a dialogue between different paths and generations, bringing roots and the present closer together in the same space. This encounter reinforces the idea of continuity, not only as an artistic heritage but also as a construction of identity.
Strength and resilience, particularly associated with the feminine universe, emerge as central themes throughout the exhibition, reflected in portraits, seascapes, and abstract compositions that address different emotional states and forms of resistance, transformation, and permanence.
Visually, the exhibition maintains a language marked by chromatic intensity and contrast, highlighting the recurring presence of blue as a symbolic and emotional element. Between faces, sea, and abstraction, the works construct a visual journey that oscillates between the intimate and the universal, between what we inherit and what we choose to make our own.











