In Eis-me, sou uma poeta, irei ao entardecer (Here I am, a poet, leaving at dusk), Manuela Pimentel approaches the figure of the poet not through writing, but through images. Her work proposes a way of looking that seeks beauty, mystery and the possibility of renewal in what often goes unnoticed. Taking something inherently ephemeral, the advertising poster, and transforming it into a form associated with permanence and cultural memory, she creates a body of work that exists between preservation and reinvention. Faced with a world saturated by images and information, the artist invites us to pause, look closely, and uncover what lies hidden beneath the surface of things.

Through this process of transformation, Pimentel recontextualizes familiar visual fragments, allowing traces of everyday urban life to acquire new meanings beyond their original purpose. Layers of paper, texture and color become vehicles for memory, revealing the poetic potential embedded within materials that are typically overlooked or discarded. Rather than documenting reality, the works encourage an intuitive encounter with images, where ambiguity and imagination take precedence over certainty.

The exhibition reflects on the ways in which images shape our perception of time, place and collective experience, suggesting that acts of preservation can also become acts of creation. By elevating transient materials into carefully composed artworks, Pimentel explores the tension between disappearance and endurance, while proposing a renewed attention to the visual landscape that surrounds us. Eis-me, sou uma poeta, irei ao entardecer ultimately celebrates the transformative power of looking, inviting viewers to rediscover the extraordinary within the ordinary.