These works move through an in-between state: between figuration and abstraction, the geometric and the organic, clarity and interruption. Built slowly through accumulated revisions, they keep traces of time and decision-making visible—marks that resist a single narrative and invite sustained, contemplative looking.

Alongside the paintings, the Archive offers an editorial layer of process: not an explanation, but a parallel map of sketches, studio images, and notes echoing the rhythm of making.

Katarina Abovic (1988) is a Chilean contemporary painter based in Porto, Portugal.

Her work explores the space between figuration and abstraction, where form dissolves into atmosphere and perception remains in motion. Through layered colour, gesture, and drawn line, she builds images that shift between clarity and disappearance—figures felt rather than fully described.

Her process is slow and physical, moving through repeated passages of colour, line, and erasure, allowing control and chance to coexist. Transparencies, fragments, and shifts in value create spaces that feel both architectural and fluid, holding multiple states at once.

She is currently developing new paintings within the ongoing body of work The Space Between.