Veil of Dreams by Diogo Landô
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Medium: Mix-media on Acrylic Box
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $3200.00 USD
Status: available
Veil of Dreams Edition: Original 1/1 (w/ Certificate of Authenticity and serial number) Medium: Mixed Media Acrylic Box Size: 100x120x8 cm This artwork is created through a mixed-media process combining collage, photographic fragments, paint, and graphic elements, layered and assembled within an acrylic box. Torn papers, textures collected from urban and organic environments, and colour interventions form a dense grid that structures the composition while allowing multiple visual narratives to coexist. Veil of Dreams presents a fragmented female portrait that slowly emerges through a mosaic of small squares. The image is partially concealed, as if seen through a screen or a mental filter, where identity is suggested rather than fully revealed. Skin, eyes, lips, flowers, and abstract marks appear and disappear across the surface, creating a sense of intimacy interrupted by distance. The grid functions as a veil—both protective and obstructive—inviting the viewer to look closer while accepting that the image will never fully resolve. The work explores the space between reality and imagination, where memories, desires, and perceptions overlap. Bright colours and delicate organic details contrast with worn textures and urban traces, reinforcing the tension between softness and disruption. Veil of Dreams reflects on how images are constructed, filtered, and fragmented in contemporary life, suggesting that dreams, like identity, exist in layers—constantly shifting, partially hidden, and shaped by what we choose to see or ignore.
Why collect this work?
A gridded field breaks a female face into partial sightings, making recognition depend on distance while denying a complete portrait.
- Landô’s profile links his practice to photography, design, collage and digital manipulation. Here, that visual fluency supports an image built through interruption rather than seamless synthesis.
- In the photograph, pale facial fragments gather near the centre, while saturated yellow, red, blue and black pieces intensify toward the edges. Repeated squares impose order, but mismatched eyes, skin, foliage and marks prevent the face from fully resolving.
- The catalogue documents collage, photographic fragments, paint and graphic elements assembled in an acrylic box. That combination permits different image registers to occupy one grid, although the photograph cannot confirm the work’s texture, depth or exact colour.
- Encountering this work foregrounds a contemporary problem: how portraits assembled from abundant visual fragments can make identity legible yet incomplete. Its tension lies in the grid’s promise of coherence and its persistent failure to deliver it.
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.
