Ana Manso's 'Dragon Vein' Opens at Casa Di Marino in Naples

Portuguese artist Ana Manso (born 1984, Lisbon) presents 'Dragon Vein' at the new headquarters of Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Casa Di Marino, on Via Monte di Dio in Naples. The exhibition marks a new chapter in her research, moving beyond painting to construct perceptual spaces where memory and reality layer, blur, and dissolve. The title references a Feng Shui concept of invisible energy currents that shape landscapes. Manso's works accumulate forms and traces without seeking logic, revealing an internal rhythm of tensions, frictions, and allusions. The boundary between abstraction and figuration is thin, with evoked architectures, fragments of light, and suggested shadows. The installation is a measured choreography that allows the space to breathe, with white surfaces containing the canvases' turmoil, creating a subtle, vibrant energy. The viewer is drawn into an emotional landscape that slowly unfolds, activating memory. The practice echoes Chinese painting and Wang Yuanqi's texture strokes, not as citation but as poetic affinity, translating landscape into the language of memory. Each canvas becomes a fluid territory, a garden of forking paths where every direction remains possible.