Francisca Sacadura Botte (b. 1994, PT) is a Portuguese visual artist. She grew up in a family surrounded by artists and collectors of art, however, in 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. 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. Paradoxically, she studied Law at the University of Coimbra, where she has recently embarked on a path in Art History, grounding her artistic practice.
She has been presenting works to the public since 2020 (solo and group show). In 2024, she went to Berlin to produce the painting collection “Berlin Immersion”. Her works are part of private collections in Portugal and abroad.
The
Possibility
of the City
vs. the
Approach
of Ruin
Francisca Sacadura Botte’s painting stands out for the emotional load of strong colours and defined lines.
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.
SOON – Galeria Municipal de Coimbra
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