LOVE OK by Diogo Landô
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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.
Why collect this work?
A strict grid breaks faces, lettering and painterly marks into competing fragments, making recognition depend on partial clues rather than a complete image.
- Landô’s profile reports experience in design, art direction and photography. Here, the grid’s editorial order contains imagery that otherwise appears abraded, cropped and unruly.
- In the photograph, repeated squares establish a steady rhythm, while isolated eyes, skin, bold letters and black-and-white marks interrupt it. The narrow red border holds this visual compression in place.
- Catalogue metadata identifies mixed media in an acrylic box, measuring 40 by 40 by 8 centimetres. Its stated layered panels make shifting alignment possible without resolving every fragment.
- The catalogue says “LOVE” and “OK” align only from the right. Encountering the work from more than one position therefore tests how affirmation can emerge briefly from obstruction and misalignment.
About the Artist
Diogo Landô
Diogo Landô is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Oliveira de Azeméis.
Nationality: Portuguese
My work begins with emotion! An impulse born from a continuous need to create.
