The exhibition Mas se acaso presents a selection of three-dimensional works produced between 2023 and 2025. The title refers to a particular “way of being” in which determination, reflection, and contingency intertwine, giving form to a body of works that, by forgoing any prior overall planning, comes into being over time, sometimes through contrasts, sometimes through affinities, materializing a fundamentally experimental process.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1982. Pollyanna Freire has lived and worked in Portugal since 2010. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the São Paulo State University and a master’s degree in Visual Languages from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She completed her artistic training at Ar.Co, where she attended the Advanced Course in Fine Arts.

In 2015, she was selected for the EDP New Artists Award. She inaugurated her first public sculpture in 2025, in the village of Sardín, Spain. In 2017, she held her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Escultura, followed by Cavalo verde in 2020, both at Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon. Among her most recent solo exhibitions are A pequena forma at Ar.Co Xabregas (2025); VÃO at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (2023), followed by Vano at Central Artística de Bueño, Spain (2024); and Verde-azulado, azul-amarelado at A Moagem – Cidade do Engenho e das Artes, Fundão (2024). In 2017, she was invited to take part in the 8th edition of the Artemar exhibition in Cascais, curated by Luísa Soares de Oliveira. Selected group exhibitions include Não sei se posso desejar-lhe um feliz ano at MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2022); Play is a serious matter at the Museum of Communications / Portuguese Communications Foundation, Lisbon (2019); and O pouco ou muito a diferença é pouca at Módulo – Centro Difusor de Arte (2014), curated by João Silvério.

In 2012, she was selected for the 4th Certamen de Dibujo Contemporáneo Pilar y Andrés Centenera Jaraba and participated in the exhibition Me, myself and I in Madrid, where she received an honourable mention.