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In her work she has established drawing as a directional tool, inquiring about its multiple material possibilities, which led her to develop her work also in the public space. There she made a series of pictorial interventions on damaged or already vanished buildings.
She addresses themes that go around the concept of identity, based on three ideas: place, memory and body, highlighting place as the container of memory and identity.
She is co-founder and active member of Vazarte, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating reflective art projects, art spaces and urban art creations. In 2015, she also co-founded Atelier Contencioso with three other artists, with whom she shares a workspace and authorship of the artistic interventions at Rio Maravilha [Lisbon, Portugal] and the installations Mamba-de-Jameson, on the facade of Pensão Amor [Lisbon, Portugal], and Das Dez ao Meio-Dia [Óbidos, Portugal].
Her work is part of several institutional and private collections, both national and international.
Ana Velez
Lisbon, Portugal
"DRAWING THROUGH ITS LOOSE ASSOCIATION WITH PERSONAL UNFETTERED EXPRESSION, IS THE MEDIUM THROUGH WICH THE PAST HAS OFTEN SPOKEN MOST CLEARLY AND DIRECTLY. [DEXTER, Emma - Introduction. In Vitamin D: New Perspectives In Drawing. London: Phaidon, 2005, p. 9.]"
Ana Velez has participated in several solo and group exhibitions at the institutional level, but also in collective projects of urban art. In her work she has established drawing as a directional tool, inquiring about its multiple material possibilities, which led her to develop her work also in the public space. There she made a series of pictorial interventions on damaged or already vanished buildings.
She addresses themes that go around the concept of identity, based on three ideas: place, memory and body, highlighting place as the container of memory and identity.
She is co-founder and active member of Vazarte, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating reflective art projects, art spaces and urban art creations. In 2015, she also co-founded Atelier Contencioso with three other artists, with whom she shares a workspace and authorship of the artistic interventions at Rio Maravilha [Lisbon, Portugal] and the installations Mamba-de-Jameson, on the facade of Pensão Amor [Lisbon, Portugal], and Das Dez ao Meio-Dia [Óbidos, Portugal].
Her work is part of several institutional and private collections, both national and international.
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