Ana Patrícia Severino is the Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Portugal in Madrid, where she leads various projects that enhance the recognition of Portuguese arts and literature, such as Artists Join the Embassy and Portuguese Contemporary Art Route, having promoted the exhibition of 75 Portuguese artists in Spain since 2022.

With extensive experience in cultural diplomacy, she was the Commissioner of the project "Portugal, Guest of Honor Country at the Leipzig Book Fair" in 2020, responsible for the German-language publication of more than 50 Portuguese writers. Between 2017 and 2021, she was the Director of the Portuguese Cultural Center in Berlin, where she promoted Portuguese cultural presence in Germany.

She was an advisor at the Secretary of State for Culture in the XIX Constitutional Government and, in 2014, collaborated with the Minister of Culture of Germany on a project under the Presidency of the German Republic and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Between 2000 and 2012, she worked at the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual.

"The selection of works proposed here is a poetic exploration of the collection of the Portuguese Printmaking Center, starting from the idea of the line as a potential element for the creation of infinite worlds. The line breaks, expands, moves, and flows, allowing the formation of complete universes that overcome any obstacle. It represents freedom and an invitation to transcend the boundaries of the visible and the imaginable.
Whether in the strokes of reinvented figures or in the absence of limits that call for exploration. In these works, the stroke is not limited to delimiting forms; it explores a natural sensitivity, creating a connection between the organic and the geometric, between the human and the abstract, the robust and the sensitive. They are lines that breathe, intertwining in harmony with nature, inviting us to explore layers of meaning and lose ourselves in the vast horizon of enjoyment."

Patrícia Severino

Álvaro Siza, Untitled, Engraving

Filipe Romão, "Place #2", Lithograph

"In these works, the stroke is not limited to delimiting forms; it explores a natural sensitivity, creating a connection between the organic and the geometric, between the human and the abstract, the robust and the sensitive."

Luis Gordillo, Untitled, Screenprint

Margarida Lourenço, "Refuge", Engraving, Screenprint, and Digital Print

Sara Maia, Untitled, Screenprint

Andrés Alcántara, "Cerberus Dog", Collage with Engraving

"They are lines that breathe, intertwining in harmony with nature, inviting us to explore layers of meaning and lose ourselves in the vast horizon of enjoyment."

Alberto Reguera, Untitled, Screenprint

Najia Mehadji, "Vague", Screenprint

Federico Echevarría Sainz, "Dynamic Geometry", Screenprint

Graça Morais, "Joana Carda - Saramaguian Women", Screenprint