Liñares’s practice investigates how visual information can be reconfigured to produce new meanings through a non-narrative approach, rooted in an intimate and personal perspective. His paintings are built through layers of opaque color and diffused light, allowing images to emerge gradually from the surface. This process reflects a sustained interest in what is distant, elusive, and difficult to fully grasp, generating a quiet atmosphere of ambiguity where perception unfolds through subtle variations in tone and texture.
His working method begins with a series of preliminary studies, later translated onto canvas. Through successive processes of addition, accumulation, and erasure, each composition evolves until the initial image is transformed. What remains are traces—visual echoes of memory that fluctuate between clarity and dissolution. The worn, stratified surfaces, shaped through gestures that recall an almost archaeological process, further emphasize his engagement with time, materiality, and the slow revelation of images from within the painting itself.
Born in 1988 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Pedro Liñares lives and works between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. He studied Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was a scholarship student at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. He holds a master's degree in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His work explores, through a non-narrative approach, how visual information can be repurposed to create new meanings by examining the relationships between everyday experiences and painting. His research suggests glimpses of contemporary reality, highlighting its complexity and the ambiguity of meanings from an intimate and personal perspective.
The opaque colors, the diffused light and the layers worn away by the archaeological gesture, which makes images emerge from the background of the painting, demonstrate the artist's interest in what is rare and ancient. Liñares' method involves the development of multiple drawings and studies, which are later translated onto the canvass.Through addition, accumulation, and subtraction, each painting transforms until the original image disappears. What remains are visual echoes of memory, sometimes vivid, sometimes faint.
In recent years, he presented solo exhibitions like, Atlas, at Hew Hood Gallery in London (2024), Relicário, at Kubik Gallery in Porto, Portugal (2024) and Herbário, Painters Painting Paintings, Lisbon (2025) and participated in group exhibitions such as Decomposição e Fetiche at Ateliê Vivian Caccuri, Rio de Janeiro (2022), Prêmio SGPCM at Conselho dos Ministros, Lisbon (2019), I Will Take the Risk at Galeria Azan, Lisbon (2020), Pintura sem fim at Brotéria, Lisbon (2023), Relógio de Sol at Galeria Plato, Évora (2023), Shadows of Memory at Hew Hood Gallery, London (2024), Nunca se está Sozinho at Galeria 111, Lisbon (2024), and Pequenas Notas sobre figuração II at Monitor Gallery, Lisbon (2024) and Labirinto e Vertigem, Gruta, São Paulo (2025), Chimera, Alina Foundation, Warsaw (2024).