"Within the scope of the familiar relationship we have with Luís Paulo Costa’s work, we are tempted to start by thinking about the possibility for, and the degree of surprise that a certain number of artworks can still effect on us when displayed in different ways or in different spaces. In our opinion, this unexpected and unsuspected condition is mainly produced by two factors: on the one hand, by our openness (with more or less curiosity) to the artistic object, and, on the other hand, the invariably deceiving and the discrete way it is presented to us. We are talking about paintings, even when their material support makes them seem objects of a different nature – the objects whose formal configuration differs from the common canvas mounted on an orthogonal wooden frame, for example, or the situation in which the artist uses other media (such as video projection or installation). Even in these cases, we are still talking about paintings. " Ana Anacleto