The esthetic contemplation of a work by artist Regina da Costa Val seems impossible, at first sight: how can I spare myself for the Absolute, if, at once, she presents me with moments of precarious life, the entanglement of the changing instants which starkly expose oblique situations? Regina makes us live with once – suffered/unsuffered faces - the human face, always! – that laugh furtively, stare evasively, depict sarcastic poses, sometimes ironic or simply risible or ridicule … They are usually pars of figures that, even when laughing, inevitably persuade our compassion … Would the secret lie in this? Making use of a certain comicality in order to signal an inner and deeper tragicality which reveals itself (or disguises itself) through these inept hands, through these broad open grins or these scornful looks, laughing in appearance only? Regina, swaying between jocosity and humble sagacity, brings us a little from the bitter blood of the tragedy.

Ours. Of us all.

Philosopher and Critic of Art