Ana Valquaresma (1996) is a provincial visual artist, either by atavism or vocation.

Her artistic practice seeks to exhaust as many procedural directions as possible, drawing on both two and three dimensions, in a chained system that develops from what it generates. Thus, through techniques attributed to diferent fields — such as drawing, printmaking, weaving, sculpture and ceramics — projects emerge in a rhizomatic and hypertextual relationship.

The incidence of her work lies in the transformation of raw materials that arise from the earth — clay, soil, matter — and dwells on their incumbent cycles: generative, proleptic, dependent, fallible, animist, microscopic and telescopic.

The scope is that of the possible, and that possible is self-referential, yet selfless. I am witness and tool of an anonymous trace. I refuse the idea of tradition and evolution: any work I produce keeps receding from itself, towards an indistinct time where the same gestures, urgencies and intuitions reside — and that is what interests me: time, all of it.