Only the bird sees what I see, the impassable ways in my hand, a golden and ash-colored beauty…

Comment dire ce-là? Cristina Barroso, d’année en année, sans véritablement révolutionner sa pratique picturale elle-même, par le jeu complexe et subtil de la mise en rapport entre les oeuvres…

We know how to form long- lasting memories. But how do we look after them?  We create memory-palaces and all sorts of maps…

Cristina Barroso belongs to a generation of artists who in the last decades of the twentieth century extended the concept…

In Cristina Barroso’s installation "60 Seconds in a Lifetime ", impersonality, rationalism, and the awareness of finiteness…

After receiving the invitation to write about “my São Paulo”, I asked myself what could I write about a city that is so important to me, but that I had left over 30 years ago…

The titles of her solo exhibitions speak for themselves: “Change of Place,” “Secret Mapping,”…

She paints large-format, colorful compositions showing planet systems, figures and structures…

Monasteries sanctify space and time with ritual and prayer. Cristina Barroso sanctifies them with the painterly tagging of maps…

In her works, Cristina Barroso grapples with, examines, and uses all kinds of maps. Conventional maps and topographic city photographs...

Cristina Barroso was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied art and philosophy in the USA, and has lived and worked in São Paulo…

The intention of this writing is to clarify “the present” of Cristina Barroso, being an artist of this new century…