“Naming is an act of power and of surrender. When we give a name to something, we believe we have understood it; we reduce it to the recognizable, to the catalogable, to what can be said in a single word. But there are things and situations that resist this gesture. That make it impossible. That return us to the question before the answer.
Luísa Jacinto’s work has developed as a process of exploring these limits: the limits of the language of painting; the limits of what a surface can be; the limits of what a space can contain. In So Many Names, this process becomes the theme. Not as a declaration of crisis, but as an affirmation of a freedom: that of existing between categories, of inhabiting ambiguity with precision.”
Excerpt from the text by Miguel Mesquita