Recomeço

Recomeço (New Beginning) shows a woman standing with her arms raised above her head and her eyes closed, while white doves burst into flight all around her body. The figure, drawn in black and grey, stands out against a warm rust-brown ground.

Unlike the doves held at the throat elsewhere in Ritchelly Oliveira’s work, these birds scatter outward, and the open gesture gives the composition a sense of release. At 190 cm the figure is life size, and the movement of the wings carries across the whole canvas.

Unique work, charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 190 × 150 cm (74.8 × 59.1 in). Born in Brazil in 1993 and trained in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Goiás, Ritchelly Oliveira has worked with the human figure since 2012. In 2015 he began the series Lacunas (Gaps) by asking people to talk about past relationships and what they understood love to be, and that practice of listening remains underneath the work. His work has been exhibited in Goiânia, Berlin, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, including the solo exhibition Fragility at La Brea Studio in 2023, and has appeared in international art publications such as Beautiful Bizarre.

Available for private viewing at Tilsitt Gallery in Porto, or worldwide delivery upon inquiry.