Manifesto

A visual sanctuary by Pedro Rodrigues

Manifesto

I am a face that repeats and dissolves.

A thousand and one reflections, never quite the same.

My studio is not a gallery, it is a body, a cave, a mirror.

Paper and silence, echo and flesh.

Everything you’ll see here is mostly me.

I work with ghosts and gods, ruins and roles, past and future. I dig, I paint, I model, I cover, I strip away, I become.

You are welcome to enter, even if you don’t know why.

This is the room.

Not a gallery, not a showroom. A skin of made of fragments, of paper, of contemplative silence.

Every inch was touched, cut, glued, covered, painted or whispered into.

Here, identity is a process of one that crumbles, reforms and reflects itself.

You are welcome to enter, but know that this place see you too.

Fragments of my work

Meet Mr P

The historical portraitist.
He walks through centuries, telling stories with powdered cheeks and lace.
Mr. P appears in living events, draws portraits on site, and invites the public to time-travel through art.
He’s not a character, he’s a presence.

Sometimes I become him, sometimes he becomes me.

To exist is to be seen

My studio is open, not just to be visited, but to welcome presence.

I paint portraits.

From life, from photographs, or from something invisible but felt.
Each portrait is a way of saying: I see you.
A ritual of honour, attention, and reflection.

You can become part of this practice, not as an object, but as a mirror, just like me.