The Prophecy of Tiresias: A Journey to the Underworld

This work captures Odysseus’s descent into Hades, guided by Circe’s instructions. After making sacrifices to summon the dead, Odysseus seeks out the soothsayer Tiresias, who predicts a difficult but possible return to Ithaca.

The piece depicts Tiresias not as a human, but as a dreamlike monster filled with eyes that symbolize blindness and disoriented gazes. With a duck-shaped mouth and incomplete limbs, the artist creates a surrealistic world. In this work, the artist revisits the theme of bestiaries, unreal beings that convey a sense of strangeness and reveal a nightmarish world.

Touriga nacional + Vital + suffron + bleach + Chinese ink
29,7 x 21
2025