“Joana da Conceição’s paintings emerge as visual diagrams that, in their preponderant acceleration, incite states of kinetic restlessness. Testing the focal point and syncretic capacity of our eyesight, these paintings dissect the real, representing the world through the meticulous refraction of physical matter. With a rhythmic plasticity inscribed on the molecular level, Joana da Conceição’s compositions are closer to nuclear reality and its processes than to an abstract pictoriality.”
Margarida Mendes, critic and art curator, on "Silent Colours", solo exhibition by Joana da Conceição.