Moura’s Blue Period explores the point where personal experience meets a wider sense of collective unease. Through research into Picasso’s personal archives in Paris, the Portuguese artist considers how grief changes our perception, and what it means to make images in a society struggling to imagine its future.
Moura turns towards a moment in painting’s history when personal devastation became inseparable from an attention to the lives of others. Today, artificial intelligence brings renewed promises of progress, against a backdrop of wars, political polarisation and increasingly precarious lives, the language of advancement can feel from everyday experience. What does progress mean when a secure home, a livelihood or a sense of belonging becomes harder to sustain?

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