Almeida & Dale is pleased to announce the co-representation of Rayana Rayo (1989, Recife, PE) in collaboration with Recife’s Marco Zero gallery. 

Rayana Rayo’s work springs from deeply personal procedures. Her paintings, which evoke landscapes or botanical organisms, constitute a biome of their own, which responds to sensitive experiences and subjective elaborations. Rayo uses fundamental forms and a subdued color palette to create fabulations as paintings, from which emerge figures that allude to mountains, islands, and aquatic and abyssal landscapes, as well as plants, animals, and other beings that stand out from the background and sparkle on the surface of the canvas.

Oneiric in nature, her representations do not seek immediate correspondence with the outside world. Although this is suggested in their appearance, for the artist, painting is an instrument for materializing memories, desires, and everyday experiences, while simultaneously establishing a dialogue with Pernambuco’s artistic tradition.