Le secret du conte initiatique : peindre la généalogie d’une culture

Graça Morais’ paintings offer an initiatory journey where each secret must be earned. It is not merely an aesthetic experience, but a cathartic quest where painting becomes an antidote against forgetfulness. The artist maps her childhood village through a sociological and ethnographic lens, focusing on the women who have marked her past. This article will seek to understand whether childhood is, in fact, the very first living museum that the painter visited. It will analyze how she transforms the landscape and to what extent this landscape, in turn, transforms her.