«Cyril: […] Life imitates art, that Life in fact is the mirror, and Art the reality?»

The Decay of Lying (Oscar Wilde,Penguin Books, Great Ideas, 2020, p. 22).

This workshop aims to explore the place of the artist as a road (or bridge) between two points. Based on Oscar Wilde's quote that it is life that imitates art and not the other way round, we will explore, using the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova, how the artist can be a revealing agent and point to other ways of experiencing life.

Sara Mealha was born in Lisbon in 1995. In 2017, she graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She has been exhibiting regularly in group and solo exhibitions since 2017. The most recent ones stand out: Às Nove a Caminho (Balcony Gallery, 2019), Ou Não, Sim (Casa da Cerca, 2021), Ne Pas Plier (Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, 2023) and Meia Bravura (Appleton BOX, 2023).