01/03/2026
FITA Agency, Mariana Duarte Santos 🎥🎞️
We are very pleased to welcome Mariana Duarte Santos () to the FITA Agency! ❤️🫂 It is a privilege to begin working together.
Born in Lisbon in 1995, Mariana Duarte Santos is a figurative artist whose practice moves between painting, drawing, printmaking, and public art. ☎️
🏙️ Since 2019, she has completed more than 80 murals across Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, and the United States, creating images that inhabit architecture and public space with a quiet, cinematic presence.
Her studio work draws strongly from cinema and literature, unfolding through carefully composed scenes that feel paused in time, as if extracted from a film still. These works often explore intimacy, distance, and ambiguity through restrained gestures and tonal atmospheres. 🗞️
📸 In the public realm, her practice engages with memory, collective identity, and local history. Working frequently from archival photographs, Mariana transforms documentary material into images that resist fixed narratives, inviting viewers to project their own readings and emotions.
One of her murals is permanently located at Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta () . 🌿🔍
Currently, Duarte Santos’ work is on view in Calafrio / Shiver at MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (.oficial) (26 February – 10 May 2026), including The Room (2025), a work that reflects her interest in suspension, silence, and photographic framing. 🖼️💫
⬛ We look forward to this collaboration and to the paths it will open. ⬜
To learn more about Mariana Duarte Santos’ work:
🔗 FITA Agency > link in bio + https://friendsinthearts.net/FITA-Agency-Mariana-Duarte-Santos
🏡 Works available at FITA Gallery > link in bio + https://friendsinthearts.net/FITA-Gallery
📲 Explore Mariana’s profile >