Adela Angulo Portugal is a Spanish artist based in Madrid. Her work is articulated around painterly practice and her interest in the process of creation. Starting from formal and material aspects, she investigates the limits of painting and the language that is generated around it. Her practice revisits the conception of painting, addressing its structures and its historical weight.

Her research focuses on the configuration of the pictorial image and on the ways in which it is constructed and shifts into other forms. The works thus acquire a corporeal character and relate directly to space, presenting themselves as sensitive bodies. At times, her practice operates in an intermediate field between painting and sculpture. Her work engages with questions linked to human existence, alluding to emotional and intimate dimensions.

Angulo Portugal is currently working on a project that explores painting as a horizontal, bodily act—an act of laying down, of resting, of opening the body to space and matter. It also questions traditional ways of exhibiting painting, shifting away from the upright, wall-mounted format to embrace horizontal modes of display that invite rest, suspension, and physical proximity.

The work investigates the horizon not as a fixed or continuous line, but as a series of perceptual breaks that suggest continuity: a space of interruptions, held together by the gaze that tries to make sense of what is fragmented.