"Paula Rosa's painting merges the tangible medium of technology with the untangible magic of imagination and dreams. Her work transports us into surreal landscapes and solitary images that stir the emotions of anyone who has ever found themselves empty, lonely or in despair. She fuses natural and mechanical constructions to explore new and recurring philosophical themes. Her images are thought-provoking and hit at the very core of emotion... in that place where dreams lie and lies torture and joy manages to creep through rocks like persistent little wild flowers."

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Julie Laurin

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"The terrible fact is that the vast majority of the public is completely unaware of the incredible work, the infinite number of hours, the mastery, the meticulousness, the patience, the determination, the intelligence that it takes for an artist to produce a work of such quality as Paula Rosa's.

Many people imagine that it is easy, so effortless, because "it's made with photoshop !" — how many times do we hear such nonsense! —, that it would be a kind of subterfuge, a trick that is facile and customary, that there would be no real needed talent behind it all. But the few contemporary artists of composite-photography don't care about all this, they KNOW and are determined to advance Art and photography whatever it costs them.

But they still need a real sensitivity, an immediately recognisable artistic expression, a clear guideline, a concept, because know-how is not enough for Art, it does not make Art; but Paula Rosa possesses it all to perfection and moreover plays it with a lot of sincerity, drive and humour. To achieve her paradigm, Paula does not stop there, however, she is one of the few artists who transgress barriers with striking pleasure and ease and adds to her photography, digital painting in which she excels just as much, giving her works that very unique aspect.
When I discovered Paula Rosa's wonderful work, I didn't wait a second before asking her to join, if she wished, the group of Permanent Artists of the ONE Museum, as I considered her Art work to be absolutely fundamental, indispensable and precious for the Museum, because it fully shares all the artistic values we want to promote.

I am all the more happy that I did not hesitate, since I also discovered in her a very friendly and handsome person.

Thank you so much Paula!"

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Thierry Gulian

Curator at The ONE Museum

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"Lisbon, Portugal based artist Paula Rosa combines digital painting with photo manipulation to create surreal black and white landscapes. Most incorporate painted areas and photography, all put together in Photoshop CS4, merging technology with visions from Rosa’s imagination and dreams. Exploring psychological themes, her landscapes usually portray nudes morphing with their sterile and polluted industrial surroundings. At times, Rosa carves windows into their feet and limbs, revealing scenes from her memories that evoke feelings of despair."

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Hi-Fructose

The New Contemporary Art Magazine

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"Volutes of smoke from strange machines mixing together and in which confrontation a chest with an unreal perfection takes shape, unfinished undoubtly female androids at their birth or at their final abandon in a derelict world, surreal montages where the body is building, house, home, its skin hiding the bricks of the walls, embodiment of psychic states playing with our minds like demiurge puppeteers, fantasy interactions of the organic and the technologic in excessiveness and dehumanization."

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Incubus

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"Artiste et designer, Paula Rosa immortalise à travers son oeuvre la rencontre entre la rigueur technique et le chaos intérieur de l’imaginaire. Ses photographies surréalistes en noir et blanc montrent un monde où les constructions mécaniques et industrielles aliènent la nature et l’être humain."

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"Cette artiste portugaise opère un mariage fusionnel inattendu entre les arts visuels numériques : elle mélange avec imagination et grâce la photographie numérique, le dessin, la peinture et l’aérographe dans des compositions étonnantes et troublantes qui emmènent le spectateur dans de lointains univers surréalistes. Sa plus récente série, DK, intègre toutes ces techniques dans d’harmonieuses compositions fantastiques et futuristes qui nous plongent au cœur du processus créatif, dans une véritable fusion entre les arts, grâce aux possibilités infinies données par les nouvelles technologies."

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Dorothy's Gallery

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"El cuerpo femenino es la materia prima con la que Paula Rosa compone sus estructuras y ruinas en paisajes industriales o desolados, cuerpos como enormes estatuas incrustadas de ventanas y puertas configuran surrealistas escenarios oníricos. Curiosamente los ojos, que en esos colosos se han transmutado en ventanas o balcones, cobran vida autónoma en otras composiciones. "

"The female body is the raw material used by Paula Rosa to compose her structures and ruins in industrial or desolate landscapes, bodies like huge statues inlaid with windows and doors conform surreal oniric scenarios. Curiously the eyes, that in these giants have been transmuted into windows or balconies, have an independent living in other compositions."

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Javier Fuentes

El Hurgador [Arte en la Red]

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"Du noir et blanc, un chaos post-apocalyptique, une fusion torturée entre surréalisme et art digital, l’artiste Paula Rosa projette son imagination et ses rêves absurdes dans un futur incertain où corps nus et environnement urbain ne font plus qu’un!
« J’habite dans un corps détruit, nous sommes en 2200, la vie est K.O et le ciel n’est plus que fumée industrielle », un résident de l’univers créé par l’artiste visuel portugaise Paula Rosa, pourrait tenir ces propos!
Combinaison millimétrée de peintures et de manipulations digitales sur photoshop, sa série « Black and white » contemple les bras baissés, la décadence d’une société matérialiste, où l’inconscience humaine se téléporte vers l’auto-destruction. Outre l’aspect social et psychologique, Paula Rosa nappe ses créations de magie surréaliste en noir et blanc, copiée-collée de ses rêves bizarroïdes."

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Max Rabi [JUUMAG]

Photographer & Journalist

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[on Human DK / Deviantart]

"Aren't we all in some manner or another just a veneer on a crumbling structure? Each of us puts on a brave face when we're falling apart inside, each plasters on beauty and glamour to hide the cracks. When we do fall to pieces, those around us can look at the mess we've become and see fragments of the face we showed to the world before we fell."

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SRSmith

writer

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[on Human DK / Deviantart]

"Quite impressive. It expresses modernity as it is: pollution, broken dreams, superficiality... blind minds addicted to television, and feeling safe behind the keyboard; decay of the human soul."

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Cristina Stefan

illustrator