“Women approached me and told their stories. It's been like this for years, I think I'm someone reliable. Someone that will hear those intimate, and sometimes painful, stories that you've never told anyone. Someone who will listen without judging. Just someone to listen. To paint these stories is to do something with this pain. A kind of healing process, an end point.” – Panmela Castro on the series HerStory
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Panmela CastroCarol Bonates, HerStory series, 2019Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 x 2 cm
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Panmela CastroDr. Cristina Lopes Afonso, HerStory series, 2021Diptych. Painting and manuscript.
Oil on linen.
Ballpoint pen on sulphite paper.
Painting: 120 x 90 x 8 cm
Manuscript: 104 x 34 x 4 cm
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Panmela CastroPedro Maia, HerStory series, 2019Diptych. Painting and manuscript.
Acrylic on canvas
Handwritten on craft sheet
Painting: 90 x 70 x 1,2 cm
Manuscript: 48 x 37 x 5 cm -
Panmela CastroNilva Belo, HerStory series, 2021Diptych. Painting and manuscript.
Oil on linen
Ballpoint pen on bond paper
Painting: 70 x 50 x 8 cm
Manuscript: 43 x 34 x 4 cm -
Panmela CastroAna Letícia Silva de Souza, HerStory series, 2019Triptych. Painting and manuscript.
Acrylic on linen
Print on canvas
120 x 80 x 2 cm (each)
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Panmela CastroPamella Liz, HerStory series, 2019Acrylic on canvas
110 x 90 x 4,5 cm