Writing about Mafalda is intuitive. It is a work of emotional ripening, and it takes years of an open heart to arrive here. Fortunately, I have some practice with hearts.
So much beauty leaves me breathless, I told her, when I saw the works for the exhibition “A invenção de horizontes” (The invention of horizons). I step into Mafalda’s studio and feel my body give way. That’s how I know I am living inside a Mafalda Mendonça painting.(...)"

Vanesssa Augusto
Cultural journalist and host of FEMINA podcast