Luz e Emoções na Pintura

Instituto de Altos Estudos

Academia das Ciências de Lisboa

22 de Abril 2026

Filipe Rocha da Silva builds worlds from accumulation. Across six decades and multiple media — oil on canvas, pencil on paper, printmaking, vídeo and textile — his work consistently returns to a single governing principle: the dense, patient layering of small marks, figures, or units of colour that, taken together, produce something larger than their sum. Subject matter is always subordinated to this relentless accumulation, which gives his work a rare unity. To look closely is to see the unit; to step back is to see the world it builds.

Poem by Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869)

Photo Val d’Orcia by FRS

2019

Mirza Ghakib textile ‘s drawing in progress

Mirza Ghalib, Wool and Lace on Canvas, 100X170cm, 2021

Val d’Orcia, Oil on Canvas, 73X100cm, 2021

Seen from Twin Tours, Downtown Manhattan, 1983