LOVE OK by Diogo Landô

Medium: Mix-media on Acrylic Box

Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm

Year: 2025

Price: $1200.00 USD

Status: available

LOVE OK Mixed media in acrylic box 40x40×8 cm Original 1 of 1 + IMAGES - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q1XiABvxcpYO3jbJ27Nj9hDHsNCmGvjT/view?usp=drive_link LOVE OK continues Diogo Landô’s exploration of layered perception, fragmentation, and emotional contradiction through mixed media and spatial composition. Using a similar technical approach to previous works, the piece unfolds through accumulation, erosion, and alignment—where meaning is never immediate, but revealed through movement and attention. On the back panel, a fragmented image of a woman’s face emerges—intimate yet distant. The word LOVE, graffitied across her cheek, acts both as declaration and intervention, blending tenderness with urban rawness. The gesture is direct, almost impulsive, echoing the visual language of the street while preserving a quiet emotional charge. The front panel presents a grid-like pattern of small squares, constructed from torn paper, weathered textures, and traces collected from outdoor environments. These fragments feel worn, consumed by time—destruído, gasto, urbano. Each square operates as a residue, a scar, or a memory: parts of a whole that no longer exists intact. Multiple layers overlap, collide, and partially erase one another, reinforcing the idea of impermanence and lived experience. Only from the right point of view do both panels align, allowing the words LOVE (back) and OK (front) to meet. This moment of alignment is brief and fragile, suggesting acceptance rather than certainty—love not as perfection, but as something that survives through damage, adaptation, and time. Encased in an acrylic box, LOVE OK exists between protection and exposure, intimacy and distance. It is a quiet affirmation born from fragmentation—where love is not idealised, but acknowledged as enough.