Book of Hours
Living Still Life
Graça Morais

Divided (or multiplied) between Lisbon and Trás‑os-Montes, between the city and the countryside, over the years, the painter Graça Morais has kept an intermittent diary, where she records, in images and words, her impressions and reflections on what she sees and experiences. In this diary, she draws the fruits of the earth, animal figures, human faces and victims of war, accompanying those visual notes with direct and quick verbal commentary. In this ‘Book of Hours’, which corresponds to different times, a few unpublished pages of the artist’s diary are revealed. Running alongside a vast and renowned work, they develop a discontinuous, yet endlessly illuminating dialogue.