Augusto Portella, born in 1992, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from PUC-Rio in 2016. In 2017, he began studying art under Charles Watson, Frederico Carvalho, and Rafael Alonso. Starting in 2020, he began devoting himself to painting.

His research explores painting as a space for repetition, insistence, and narrative construction. In his works, figures, landscapes, and situations continually recur with slight variations, forming ensembles in which no single painting is self-contained. The saturation of a single motif shifts the focus from the isolated image to the relationships that emerge between them, as if the exhibition were constructed from successive fragments of a suspended narrative, in which little happens, but something seems on the verge of transforming.

Part of this process takes place on the support itself: Portella paints on the linen and then reveals the reverse side of the canvas, where the image reappears filtered through the fabric’s fibers. More than just a technical procedure, this gesture produces a painting marked by instability, delay, and loss, as if each image always carried the trace of another, slightly different one.

Notably, she participated in the exhibition “Pano de Fundo” at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, curated by Carollina Carreteiro (2026); in the exhibition “Uma história Guanabara” at the Inclusartiz Institute, curated by Gabriela Davies (2024); “Apocalipse” at Casa França-Brasil, curated by Comadre (2024), as well as “Ágape Frugal,” curated by Daniela Avellar, in 2023; “Assembléia” at Galeria Refresco, also curated by Daniela Avellar; and “ID” at Z42 Arte, curated by Christiane Laclau, both in 2022.