Gonçalo Pena (Portugal, 1967) is an artist whose work moves between drawing, painting, and text, combining the sharpness of satire with a constant questioning of image-making. His practice unfolds as a convulsive becoming: exhibition after exhibition, forms shed their skins, moving between iconoclasm and devotion, parody and allegory. Influenced by traditions as diverse as Cubism, Surrealism, Conceptual tactics, and popular caricature, Pena deploys humour, ellipsis, and wordplay to reflect on art history, ideology, and the absurdities of contemporary life.

At Drawing Room, a selection of A4 drawings that condense the restless spirit of his practice will be presented. These works oscillate between figuration and abstraction, at times almost cartoon-like, at times nearly illegible, and often laced with textual asides. With them, Pena continues his exploration of the human and the inhuman, the ridiculous and the tragic, weaving a visual commentary where art and world collide, destabilize, and mirror one another.