To Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, "an image is worth one thousand words". REGINA DA COSTA VAL has, undoubtedly, a perfect notion of the power of this silent language that she exhibits in her traces and colors, not bothering in the least with the conventional aesthetic of the beautiful and the athletic in human figures.

On the contrary, Costa Val’s work is a mute denouncement of the countless injustices that life exhibits in the social area, and the beautiful becomes a search for what is just, for the unprejudiced, for the real essence of the being without make-up or artifices.

The work of Regina shows, in its powerful figuration intermingled with soft color nuances, a distinctive mark: it is not the figures she puts on the canvas or paper that are deformed. The social situations and conflicts that involve them are the cause of their deformation.

If the fact of being an artist – whatever be the segment of the art – means a commitment to social transformation in the sense of a search for the better, then COSTA VAL is imbued with this sentiment. And in a poetical, beautiful way she resorts to what to a few is considered "ugly" to go along her journey.