Ponto de ligação ( Connection Point) by Raquel Reis
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Medium: Oil on Arches paper
Dimensions: 46 x 56 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $820.00 USD
Status: available
Description This captivating oil painting, "Ponto de Ligação (Point of Connection)", invites contemplation on the intricate dance between human connection and our digital age. Rendered on paper with expressive brushstrokes, the artwork uses vibrant color contrasts to depict a fragmented portrait. It masterfully captures the dual nature of the Portuguese title, "ligação", which signifies both a phone call and a bond between people, hinting at the nuanced ways we connect and communicate today. The artist explores how technology, symbolized by a cellphone, becomes more than a device. It represents our state of being—our presence, our absence, the anticipation of a message, and the emotional ties we forge across distances. The figure exists in a liminal space, highlighting how identity is sculpted through our interactions, where communication acts as both a pathway and a barrier. This artwork, with its rich figurative yet abstract qualities, is perfect for adding a contemporary touch to any space.
Why collect this work?
The phone acts as the structural hinge of a divided figure, turning communication into an image of simultaneous contact and separation.
- Reis describes her figuration as emotional translation rather than literal portraiture. Here, displaced features and abrupt colour divisions make that approach legible without fixing the figure to a single emotion.
- In the photograph, the raised forearm links handset and face, while a dark contour splits the yellow head. One eye faces outward and the other shifts sideways, giving divided attention a bodily form. The catalogue glosses “ligação” as both bond and phone call.
- Catalogued as oil on Arches paper, the work combines a paint capable of layered opacity with a support associated with works on paper. Prominent outlines organise the coloured passages, though the photograph cannot establish surface texture or paint depth.
- Dated 2026, the painting belongs in discussions of mediated attention because it avoids depicting a screen. Instead, the device reorganises posture, gaze and anatomy, locating technology within the figure’s construction.
About the Artist
Raquel Reis
Raquel Reis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Madrid, ES.
Nationality: Brazilian
My work is rooted in sensation, perception, and gesture.
