Heloísa Franco (1997) holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from FAAP (2018), lives and works in São Paulo. Since 2020, she has explored ways of making images appear through the removal of paint. She is interested in images that dwell in the hand, which are not captured or stabilized by the eye, and that inhabit a subterranean space between abstraction, figuration, and deformation. In 2022, she presented her first solo exhibition Gênero: paisagem at Lanterna Mágica, Projeto Vênus, in São Paulo.

Untitled (2025) arises, like other works by the artist, from her interest in making things appear through the subtraction of paint. Franco seeks landscapes that live within things, that vibrate in the eye and are evoked by gesture, creating a play between abstraction, figuration, and deformation. Her use of different supports (wood, canvas, metal, among others) is part of the specific flow of each painting — each with its rhythm and cadence — and of processes that begin before the paint is applied. These supports also contribute to the unpredictability of the final result. The artist sees her images as consequences of painting rather than motives for it. Thus, she believes that to paint a landscape is also to evoke the unknown.

The work was part of the group exhibition Boca a Boca, curated by Alice Granada at Fonte (SP), in June 2025.