Alex D. da Silva

My work has always revolved around our relationship to the land, the spaces we inhabit and the ways they are reshaped, whether by human intervention or by nature itself. It is an exploration of memory, a testing of the tales we construct to make sense of ourselves.

My paintings are dense with symbols, shaped by a restless, anxious imagination. I build them slowly, layering textures, adding and removing elements, weaving a visual story I continue to tell myself. For me, they extend beyond the present moment, and I inhabit each one them. At the start of a new work, I return to that place, not from nostalgia or deliberate design, but because it is where the connections reside, where meaning and doubt gathers, and where I still find my way into painting.

History is inescapable, even when we choose to ignore it. Painting is my way of entering into dialogue with that narrative, and of grounding myself in the only home any of us will ever know.