Luísa Saldanha (b. 1999) is an artist based in Lisbon, where she lives and works. She holds a BA in Painting from Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (2021) and an MA in Fine Arts from LUCA School of Arts, Campus Sint Lukas, Brussels (2024). Luísa has been exhibiting frequently since 2021, both in group projetcs as well as solo. 

Her artistic practice functions as a means of deepening self-knowledge and as a cathartic mechanism. Working as a visual diary, her work expresses emotions, ideas, and lived experiences through a personal visual language developed over time. This language is composed of recurring icons and symbols that, when translated into artworks, evolve into structured narratives and concrete ideas. These explorations are made through mainly painting, but have also resulted in installation projects, sculpture and writing. 

Luísa is particularly interested in exploring seemingly opposing forces, such as pleasure and pain, dominance and submission, innocence and aggression. How comfort may coexist with threat, how pleasure can emerge from discomfort, and how vulnerability and power can exist simultaneously. Through her practice, she allows these tensions to coexist in balance.