Pedro Zamith

Lisbon, Portugal (1971)

He is graduated in Fine Arts (Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa). He took a baccalaureate in Scenography and Theater Models (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema).

"Pedro Zamith, an agile artist who manipulates the popular imagination, is a juggler of decontexts, goes to meet real characters and finds them a little before everything is written in the stone. We slipped through his hand into a back room, a waiting room, or an obscure studio to discover the subtleties that the limelight lights would mercilessly glaze over seconds later. Zamith paints crookedly on straight lines, is a painter who tells history as much as he likes, which may owe both to Magritte's "realism" and to Orson Welles's manipulation in F for Fake. After passing through the mise-en-scéne zamithiana, these characters become more human, thus, with small h. And then the rewritten history seems to us another, more tortuous, more flawed, and therefore truer, which certainly deserves a sinuous smile. "