feathers and wolves
para falar de amor, 2024wolves, geese and swans on an orange ground, in antique frames hung from ropes.
i create from what i shed
olha para dentro
ou viro-te do avesso
look inward, or i turn you inside out
my paintings on the runway · spfw n61 · 16.10.2026 · photo pedro giannini
alforje
hisha × f. romão
fifty metres of raw cotton painted with horses, suspended over hisha’s carpet.
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photo pedro giannini
installation · cotonifício building · 2026
para falar de amor II
the attic
right before the sky, there is skin, sensitive matter and tension.
enter the attic →
works · series · 2021
facetas
they emerged while i was erasing a painting. each strip is a verse, a fragment, a sound.
see the series →
manifesto
fernanda romão investigates the sensitive dimension of human experience.
she creates portraits and figures that work as psychic mirrors. her painting reveals regions of emotional experience that have no rational language yet.
she uses art viscerally, in works heavy with symbolism, with the feminine and with animals, that set out to explore the complexity of human feeling.
painting · body · installation · são paulo
the game dentraverso
a deck made from pieces of my paintings.
each card is a cut-out: a gaze, an animal, a fabric, a shadow. on its own, the fragment explains nothing. whoever plays sees what they wish to see, and says it.
on one side, looking inward — dentro. on the other, turning inside out what was kept — avesso. the image asks nothing. it only gives back.
card game · paintings by f. romão
- cards
- around 90, each one a painting cut apart
- frame
- torn paper, with an old-gold edge
- specials
- one all-white card and one all-black
- box
- conceived as an object, in a small edition
- now
- going to print. not yet for sale
not everything fits
on a wall
some works ask to be inhabited. here are the worlds i created whole, from the first idea to the last thread: rooms, balls, installations that change over the weeks, made of painting, fabric, sound, writing and body. the inhospitable space had to become the work.
para falar de amor IIthe attic
2026right before the sky, there is skin, sensitive matter and tension.
it was the only space no one chose, and in the end, the only one that remained whole.
i wanted to give form there not to a series of mine, not to a character, not to a figure, but to the deepest thing i hold. from that came suspension, space, emptiness, form, the lack of form, the inside, the inside-out, the skin, the flesh, the core. hooks to cunningly suspend and tension the body. and red, the colour of clay, in a gradient, reddest at the tip.
i expected to return to the place where i began to paint, a place of great pain, very dense, very black, heavy. the finished room surprised me: it was beautiful, ethereal, a place where i had no art yet.
i invited people to choose notes on a keyboard, to understand whether that was what i felt. many chose the lowest ones, the deepest.
a sky of almosts.
in october, the installation took in another work. i painted a new piece for hisha and brought it back to be with it: one over the other, woven together. there was the aerial part, but there was also the ground; there was the sky, but there was also the pain of things.
painting
leaves the wall
22,000
people in thirteen days. para falar de amor, a group exhibition at the noviciado, 2024 — with works by f. romão, who also took part in the curation.
murals, fabrics, doors, blackboards. when painting takes over the building, the body of whoever passes through becomes part of the work.
installations
o lago
baile de kimeras, 2025the lake: a dark room with water on the floor. the only light comes from the domes and from what the water gives back.
- para falar de amor IIthe attic, cotonifício building, 2026
- para falar de amorgroup exhibition, noviciado, 2024
- casa cor2024, descamadas series
- irrealidades visíveis2023
- o tempo das coisas2022
- telesp residency2021 to 2024
- galeria vivaav. paulista
- notie · vila medí · baile de kimeras · jaguar paradeinstallations and projects
oil paintings,
made by hand
they began as mirrors. then came the animals, the rust, the peeling skin, the body on stage. some are lit from behind and change their mood when the room goes dark.
featured · works
facetas
2021
facetas
2021
facetas — facets
each strip is a verse, fragment, sound.
the facetas emerged while i was erasing a painting with dark lines. in that attempt, i found a language of my own.
facetas and blur are the series that set my artistic research in motion.
you were born of a mistake, you are not the idealised figurebut tearing you open from within was how i multiplied youand there you were: my unexpected faceti divided the self, i am lighterreborn in me, a dialogue that never ceases,each strip is a verse,fragment, sound.to gaze at them, at times,is the only way to be one.
nine series,
from 2020 to 2024
in order of creation. each series is born from what the one before left out.
blur
2020
a thirst for the concrete, while we are movement.
the beginning of a relentless search for an identity outside the norm. it was born during the pandemic, when we questioned ourselves deeply and so often became an unknown.
an image that is never still, but transforms continuously. blur dares whoever looks to create their own image.
autorretrato
2020
autorretrato — self-portrait
olha para dentro, ou viro-te do avesso.
look inward, or i turn you inside out.
with no training or practice in painting, the discoveries came from trying to soften mistakes.
each of these women was a way of seeing myself, mirrors before they were figures. that is why i consider every woman i have ever painted a self-portrait.
wild
2021
the horse, the wild that pulses. the divinity that sees us.
a self-portrait. a space within the intimate world of ideas and thoughts that already fall out of step with whatever lives outside this universe.
the wolf sometimes plays the supporting role, an observing figure. the horse, the wild that pulses, the divinity that sees us.
descamadas
2022
descamadas — shed skins
in praise of what is out of focus.
rebirth and circularity through the shedding of the self. installations, paintings and poems provoke reflection on the versions of the self and its fragmentation: the rupture of the plane, the discovery of layers.
shown at o tempo das coisas (2022), irrealidades visíveis (2023) and casa cor 2024.
self
2023
the urgency of shedding along the contour, from within.
the instant the body stops performing and begins to admit what it is.
jardim dos sonhos
2023
jardim dos sonhos — garden of dreams
a garden inhabited, performed, painted.
it marks the moment i begin to bring performance, body and painting together as a single field of inquiry.
it is no longer about asking who one is, but about exercising that self, putting it on stage and creating from it.
tudo que é etéreo
2024
tudo que é etéreo — all that is ethereal
shadow-body, light-body.
the series follows jardim dos sonhos, carrying the research from the performative gesture into the materiality of light.
the works explore presence and absence through the contrast between shadow-body and light-body.
para falar de amor
2024
para falar de amor — to speak of love
love as a structural force.
the images came to work as a synthesis of the distorted way we perceive love, almost always bound to fragility.
the series turns that reading around: love as a force that holds instinct, wildness, forgiveness, conflict, surrender and rebuilding.
works still
waiting for a wall
paintings in the studio. some take led backlighting: the light passes through the canvas and the image changes. dimensions, terms and the full catalogue come by whatsapp, in a direct conversation.
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natureza das coisas
wild seriesoil on canvas150 × 110 cmblack floater frame learn more about this work -
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cavalo de pau, alceu
wild seriesacrylic on a blackboard from the former telesp collection150 × 230 cm learn more about this work -
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facetas digital
facetas series, 2022television and oil paint, expanding-foam frame110 × 90 cm learn more about this work
sometimes painting
is called from outside
my paintings have left the studio for a runway and for the walls of other places. i keep painting my own way.
alforjehisha × f. romão
2026photo pedro giannini
from the ethereal straight into clay, into flesh.
dentraverso was first shown in para falar de amor, and something was missing. the idea was always for it to be a sky, but of flesh, real.
their art, giovanna’s, made me complete the work. alforje made me bring it down to earth: from the ethereal straight into clay, into flesh. fifty metres of raw cotton, painted with horses, suspended over hisha’s carpet.
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i am a small part inside this immensity. it need only fit in this alforje.
- work
- painting on raw cotton, suspended and tensioned canvases
- size
- 50 × 2.5 m, about 125 m²
- over
- hisha’s reddish carpet
- collection
- alforje (saddlebag), @hishabrasil
- credits
- hisha, by giovanna resende, with support from thiago and the scenography team
- photos
- @agfotosite / agência fotosite · pedro giannini
kura
my paintings also live at kura: murals painted by hand on the walls, horses, a tiger, two heads hanging from the ceiling.
commissions
a painting made
a painting made
from a reference of yours.
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reference
it all begins with something you bring: an image, a person, an animal, a memory.
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size and technique
together we choose the canvas and the technique: oil on canvas, with or without led backlighting, frame and finishes.
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proposal
the price is based on the area of the canvas and the chosen technique. you receive the proposal before a single brushstroke.
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painting
the work is painted from your reference, in my own language. it is not a copy: it is an encounter.
body
before the canvas,
before the canvas,
the body.
former athlete, self-taught. fernanda began to paint in 2020, during the pandemic, with no training and no prior practice. her discoveries came from error: trying to soften it became a method.
since then, painting has moved through the body and through space. oil, acrylic, rust, resin, light, blowtorch, expanding foam, blackboards from an old building. each material is a layer taken away until only what is remains.
she lives and works in são paulo.
- oil
- rust
- resin
- light
- charcoal
- blowtorch
- blackboard
- foam
- fabric
- skin
the studio, são paulo
how the work travels
to you
careful packing, done in the studio, so the work travels safely.
a signed certificate of authenticity, with title, series, technique and dimensions, and a handwritten note.
care guidance and, for works with light, installation of the led lighting.
i follow the shipment until the work arrives. we arrange everything by whatsapp.
available works
in the studio, waiting
prices as of october 2026, in brazilian reais. the availability of each work is confirmed by whatsapp, together with shipping and payment terms.
- natureza das coisaswild series · oil on canvas, black floater frame, led backlighting available1.50 × 1.10 mR$ 6.500i’m interested →
- avessowild series · oil on canvas, black floater frame, led backlighting available1.50 × 1.20 mR$ 7.000i’m interested →
- cavalo de pauwild series · acrylic on a blackboard from the former telesp collection150 × 230 cmR$ 10.900i’m interested →
- blues idols, 2023pizza & jazz kura · acrylic on fabric190 × 150 cmR$ 4.900i’m interested →
- estudo de cores xadrez da dualidadejardim dos sonhos series · oil on canvas100 × 70 cmR$ 3.100i’m interested →
- facetas digital, 2022facetas series · television and oil paint, expanding-foam frame110 × 90 cmR$ 8.500i’m interested →
- espelho meucamadas poéticas series · acrylic on canvas, led50 × 40 cmR$ 1.900i’m interested →
- dualidade, 2022à mim mesma series · oil on canvas190 × 170 cmR$ 9.900i’m interested →
- helmut noil on canvas50 × 30 cmR$ 2.000i’m interested →
- no name1.20 × 1.20 mR$ 5.000i’m interested →
- blur 26mixed media, acrylic and oil on canvas60 × 90 cmR$ 2.500i’m interested →
- untitledoil on canvas2.50 × 1.70 mR$ 12.000i’m interested →
- heraoil on canvas, with ageing and rust techniques1.60 × 1.60 mR$ 4.800i’m interested →
- sweet soil on canvas, with ageing and rust techniques1.50 × 1.20 mR$ 7.700i’m interested →
- dreamoil on canvas100 × 80 cmR$ 4.500i’m interested →
- collab woods & groovea woods & grooves collaboration · oil on wood, with marbled resin and clear resin70 × 150 cmR$ 12.000i’m interested →
catalogue 2026
request the catalogue
works in the studio, dimensions and terms, sent personally.
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