©Francisca Sacadura Botte
June 2025
FSB
Francisca Sacadura Botte (b. 1994, PT) works as a multidisciplinary visual artist and self-taught researcher about the great artistic issues of the Contemporary World.
She grew up in a family surrounded by artists and collectors of art in a demanding and conservative environment. This environment led her to start writing literary essays and philosophical reflections at the age of 8, writing plays in schools where she got her initial education along the way.
Strongly influenced by her family, she studied Law at the University of Coimbra, however, to her family’s dismay, she chose to follow her own aspirations and find her own path.
She always considered that her journey could not be dictated by the “normal laws of coexistence” that were imposed on her.
Allied with writing, she has always drawn and valued the aesthetics of things as well as the expression of the most intimate issues that tormented her through art.
She has been presenting works to the public since 2020.
In 2023, she was invited to exhibit at the Aula Magna of the Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, and in 2024, she went to Berlin to produce the painting collection “Berlin Immersion,” which she exhibited at the Eminente Gallery (PT) with a Solo Exhibition.
She is currently balancing painting with studying for a degree in Art History at the University of Coimbra.
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Francisca Sacadura Botte’s painting stands out for the emotional load of strong colours and defined lines, a preponderance of intense colours and deep dark blues.
Defines itself as a cry of freedom for difference. Always inspired by music, heavily influenced by jazz, the visceral influence of Mark Kozelek, Piazzolla’s sensual metric and the alienation of David Bowie. She also found strong inspiration in literature and a bond that somehow guides her artistic process.
Her painting reflects her inner complexity. The uncertainty, the constant search for questions and answers, the anxiety of the murmurs of normality, a feeling opposed to routine, to the rhythm of days all alike and fleeting. It seeks to characterize space and depth without ever detaching from a cosmopolitan vein. The layering of elements communicates a certain mystery, an uncertain constant of lines and textures used to allude to an urbanity that it admires.
The artist grows up in the countryside, which is why she admires and critiques the city in equal measure – associating it with solitude, lack of clarity, and confusion of ideas, yet she admires it – dreams of it. Her painting is noisy without losing the sense of aesthetics, the functionality of color, and the distribution of shapes.
She assumes herself as a great admirer of the LES NABIS movement, especially Paul Gauguin, for the way he desperately traveled places in the world where he could be faithful to himself – To his art, to his passion for the philosophy of modern life and poetry. She also identifies withthe post-war abstract expressionism movement.
“A artista Francisca Sacadura Botte procura uma clareza sublime, que na tela constitui a expressão de uma visão harmoniosa de contrastes simultâneos de cor, num realismo novo, abstrato. Existe na sua obra sensualidade, tensão entre conflito ou desejo, ” umas gramas do efémero” enfatizando Rothko.”
Ana Magalhães, Art Historian and Painter
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