WOMEN OF THE WORLD
KAMY MOSER

Some artists find painting by chance. Others feel, from a very young age, that there is within them a need to create, to transform what they see and feel into a language that needs no words.

KAMY MOSER belongs to this second category.
Portuguese and Swiss, with Angola as her birthplace, she carries with her an identity made of different geographies, cultures, and memories. Perhaps that is why her painting has such a particular ability to cross sensibilities and transform diversity into a source of beauty.

Her encounter with art began early. First, in an almost solitary way, driven by curiosity and a will that refused to give up. Then came the canvases, the paints, the experiments, the trials and, naturally, some mistakes. But discoveries also came. KAMY learned through persistence, using up materials, seeking solutions and trying to find, for herself, the path that would lead her to her pictorial language.

This stubbornness — in the best sense of the word — and this ability to fight for what he believes in are characteristics that remain present throughout his career.
But the moment also came when he understood that the desire to paint needed to be accompanied by technical knowledge. And it was then that, at the insistence of friends, he decided to embark on a more structured apprenticeship.
His teachers were the painter Zoran Smiljanic and the painter Teresa Trigalhos, both linked to the MAC – Contemporary Art Movement, in the painting school they developed. With them, he deepened his knowledge and techniques from the great traditions of Russian and French painting, finding tools that allowed him to give greater consistency and awareness to his work.
From then on, painting ceased to be just a passion and also became a path.
The first exhibitions came, the encounters with the public came, and the responses came from those who, in front of his canvases, recognized an artist in the process of self-affirmation.
It is precisely this journey that today allows us to look at KAMY MOSER's work with a different kind of attention.
In “WOMEN OF THE WORLD,” the artist presents us with a painting where women occupy a central place. Not just women as figures or representations, but women as human presence, as identity, memory, strength, delicacy, and emotion.
These are women who seem to carry with them stories that we don't fully know, but that we can sense.
There is a universal dimension in their faces and attitudes. They may belong to different parts of the world, to different cultures, and to different life experiences, but there is an essential closeness between them: they all carry something that is familiar to us.
It is this human dimension that makes this exhibition particularly interesting.
KAMY MOSER does not seek the coldness of a purely academic representation. Her painting lives primarily on emotion, color, and atmosphere. There is an evident joy in painting, a kind of enthusiasm that is transmitted through the material and reaches the eye of the beholder.
The colors generally assume a strong, but not aggressive, presence. The strokes seek softness. The forms leave room for imagination. And, between what the artist states and what she merely suggests, a territory is born where the viewer can freely enter.
KAMY's painting, therefore, has its own sensuality.
It is not a provocative sensuality, but rather a sensuality linked to beauty, femininity, and the celebration of life. There are bodies, faces, gestures, and gazes that offer themselves to our contemplation without ever losing a certain poetic reserve.
And perhaps that is precisely where one of the most interesting characteristics of her painting resides: KAMY does not completely close the work. She always leaves a door open.
When we stand before one of her canvases, we realize that the physical limits of the painting do not necessarily correspond to its emotional limits. The image seems to continue beyond the frame. The color extends into our imagination. The gesture remains in our gaze.
It is as if each woman portrayed carries with her an entire world.
Hence the title of this exhibition: WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
A simple title, but of great scope, because it speaks of concrete women and, simultaneously, of all women. It speaks of differences, but also of what unites us. It speaks of geographies, but above all of humanity.
And it is in this context that MAC – Movimento Arte Contemporânea (Contemporary Art Movement) feels particular satisfaction in accompanying KAMY MOSER in her exhibition at the Aljustrel Cultural Training and Animation Workshops, directed by Dr. Ricardo Marreiros.
For MAC, bringing art to Aljustrel has a very special meaning. Over the years, we have built a cultural relationship with this municipality that we greatly value, because we deeply believe that art should leave its usual places, travel, to find new audiences and build bridges between people and communities.
Aljustrel is, in this sense, a territory where culture finds space to breathe.
It is, therefore, a great pleasure to see KAMY MOSER present here the result of her artistic journey, in a space that has welcomed so many creative expressions and that today receives this exhibition with the dignity it deserves.
For the artist, this exhibition certainly constitutes another step on a path that is still being built. And this is, perhaps, the most beautiful condition of any true artist: knowing that they have never definitively arrived anywhere.
There is always a new canvas.
A new color.
A new face.
A new restlessness.
A new discovery.
KAMY MOSER continues searching. And it is precisely in this search that we find the authenticity of her painting.
Her canvases not only ask us to look. They ask us to feel.
That we discover the color before the word.
That we find, in a painted face, an emotion that may also be our own.

Let us recognize, behind each woman, the extraordinary diversity of the human condition.

“WOMEN OF THE WORLD” is, therefore, an exhibition of women, but it is also an exhibition about life, about beauty, about diversity, and about the capacity that painting has to bring together what, at first glance, seems distant.

KAMY MOSER found in art her way of communicating with the world.
Today, in Aljustrel, she offers us this language.
Let us receive it with our eyes, but above all with our sensitivity.
Because a good painting is seen.
But a great painting, after being seen, is still within us.

Alvaro Lobato de Faria
Director-Coordinator
MAC – Contemporary Art Movement
Academician at the National Academy of Fine Arts