Exhibited in 2004 in Lisbon and the Azores, these gouache-on-paper works (ranging from 105×107 to 140×183 cm) draw on fragments from black-and-white picture books about secret agents, spies, police, and bandits—ephemeral, quick-read publications whose stark, graphic quality persists (as described in Mission at the Border by João Queiroz), set against the backdrop of the global tensions of the period.
Laura Pels Ferra 