Beatriz Santos
Beatriz Santos (b. 1996, Lisbon) is a first year Painting MA student.
She previously studied English Literature at Clare College, Cambridge, and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her practice explores the effort of translating poetic fragments into expressive visual compositions. By engaging with poetic metaphors, her work often shows contrasting, inter-locking scenes that can be read as cyphers for internal moods, desires and fears. Beatriz uses of Baroque and folk-derived aesthetics as a way of interrogating histories of commercial value and coercive power.