Sara Marcus na Mostra Coletiva do Museu Etnográfico de Mira
Sara Marcus participates in group exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum of Mira with sustainable relief artwork
Mira, Coimbra — December 2025
Visual artist Sara Marcus is part of the group exhibition on display throughout December at the Ethnographic Museum of Mira (Coimbra), presenting the relief artwork “The Light of Silence”, developed using paperclay techniques. This sustainable approach is a defining element of her distinctive artistic practice.
The Light of Silence offers a sensitive reflection on materiality, exploring relief as an expressive language and paper as a symbolic territory. The pale surface of the composition is subtly scattered with almost imperceptible shimmering elements, which rest upon the light-toned palette and only reveal their luminosity when viewed up close, gaining sculptural presence and tactile softness. The work invites an intimate relationship between light and silence, presence and restraint, engaging subtly with the museum’s ethnographic context and the contemplative nature of the exhibition space.
The group exhibition, under the theme “Holy Family”, can be visited throughout the month of December at the Ethnographic Museum of Mira and features works by eight other Portuguese artists.
Visitors interested in relief-based work and sustainable artistic practices will also be able to visit Sara Marcus’s solo exhibition, which will be on display at the same museum throughout June 2026.
About the artist
Sara Marcus is a Portuguese multidisciplinary artist, represented by Artmajeur Gallery since 2007. Her practice spans three-dimensional painting, sculpture, and paper-based techniques, developing a poetic language in dialogue with sustainable practices and manual processes. She founded the Bodypainting Portugal Festival (2010–2019), collaborated with national television, and is currently involved in artistic and educational projects, including collaboration with the National Museum Soares dos Reis. In 2013, she published an educational literary work — an activity notebook — connected to her artistic and pedagogical practice.
