16/06/2026

I arrived at the Lisbon Book Fair imagining a simple hour of autographs.

What unfolded was something else.

There were unexpected embraces, conversations that stretched beyond signatures, familiar faces and strangers who stopped to share fragments of their own stories. Children waited patiently beside their parents. Readers lingered. Friends crossed the city to be there. Some arrived with books already marked by anticipation, others discovered Quando os Ventos Mudam by chance.

For a book born from silence, observation and an inner journey that began in Nepal, witnessing it find its place among so many hands and voices felt quietly extraordinary.

I often say that books continue their journey long after they leave the writer's desk.

Perhaps this is what that journey looks like.

Not measured in numbers, but in presence.

In eye contact.

In listening.

In the generosity of those who choose to stop, sit down, ask questions, offer a hug, and carry a story home.

The winds continue to change.

And for all those invisible threads that brought us together in Lisbon, I remain deeply grateful.

28/05/2026

The Lisbon Book Fair has long been one of the city’s most vibrant cultural gatherings, transforming the park each year into a meeting point between books, ideas and people from different worlds.

This year, I will be there for an informal conversation with readers and a signing session of Quando os Ventos Mudam..

June 4th, 5 pm
Dinalivro • Pavilion C15 & C16

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19/05/2026

Beyond the Pages

As the launch of Quando os Ventos Mudam approaches, I would like to share a broader glimpse into the universe surrounding this project...

Images, fragments and impressions that may not inhabit the pages of the book itself, yet continue to breathe the atmosphere of Tainá, the main character, allowing you to follow her footsteps throughout the journey that is about to unfold.

Upcoming launch at the Lisbon Book Fair, 2026.
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23/04/2026

For a long time, this project lived quietly.
It began without a clear form.. as fragments, impressions, images that did not yet fully belong to anything. A way of seeing that slowly started to gather itself.
There was no urgency to define it.
Only a need to remain close to what was being felt.
Over time, something shifted.
What once existed in pieces began to find a rhythm.
Connections appeared where before there were only intuitions.
The work started to take shape.. not as a fixed narrative, but as a space where image and word could coexist, each holding part of what could not be fully said.
When the Winds Change emerged from this process.
Rooted in a journey through Nepal, and shaped by encounters that stayed far beyond their moment, the book became less about documenting a place and more about tracing an inner landscape.. one that continues to unfold.
In May, it will take its first step into the world, as part of the Lisbon Book Fair.
I will share more as it continues to reveal itself.

English version to be published. Watch this space!

Book Information:
Author: Val Masferrer-Oliveira
Photography and text: Val Masferrer-Oliveira
Cover: Original artwork by Val Masferrer-Oliveira
Graphic Design: Dinis Lourenço
Publisher: Modocromia (Portugal) Link text here...
Format: 21 x 24 cm
Pages: 98

09/04/2026

For a long time, this project lived in silence.
Some journeys take time before they find their form.
Some stories need distance before they can be shared.
Over the past months, something has shifted.
What once felt fluid is now slowly taking shape.
The book is entering its production phase.
I will share fragments along the way... ...more

08/03/2026

Today I felt the need to return to the forest.
To remember something simple: our deepest roots do not come from the roles we carry in the world, but from the quiet intelligence of the earth.
Perhaps this is why certain journeys begin with the wind and slowly lead us back to the roots.
Somewhere along the way, these reflections began to shape a book I am writing about my experience in Nepal.

Val Masferrer-Oliveira
from notes written while working on Quando os Ventos Mudam (Winds of Change)

11/02/2026

Quando Os Ventos Mudam (Winds of Change) was never part of a strategic plan...

It began as a journey to Nepal.
It became a return to myself.

I did not go searching for a story.
I went searching for silence.

But in the quiet of nunneries, in the eyes of little nuns, in the vibration of singing bowls and the dust of ancient courtyards, something inside me shifted. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But permanently.

This book was not born from inspiration.
It was born from responsibility.

Responsibility to the little girls whose futures deserve expansion.
Responsibility to women who reach midlife and feel something awakening inside them, yet don’t always find language for it.
Responsibility to the artist in me who has always created not to sell, but to stay awake.

Quando Os Ventos Mudam is written in Portuguese because it is in my mother tongue that I first learned silence. And it is in that same language that I now choose to speak.

But its spirit does not belong to one language.
Its essence travels.

This is not a travel book.
It is not self-help.
It is not a spiritual diary.

It is a story of becoming.

A woman who carried the Amazon in her bones and found her echo in the Himalayas.
A woman who reached midlife and did not shrink.
A woman who understood that art is not a profession. It is devotion...

I had to write this book because something inside me asked to be named.
And because sometimes, when winds change, we either resist… or we rise.

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29/11/2025

.. some images return without warning - not because of their aesthetic, but because of their vibration.
This moment inside the nunnery, in a small cold space where the light seemed older than time, is one of them.
The photograph wasn’t taken by me, but by a friend - a former monk who knows this world from within.
Perhaps that’s why the image carries such quiet honesty.
Nothing was staged, nothing forced.
Just presence, gesture, breath… the soft choreography of everyday life.
When I think about everything I lived in Nepal, I return to moments like this.
How certain experiences become seeds.
They don’t need to shout or explain themselves - they only need to exist, to touch, to stay.
This is one of the fragments that walks with me as the new project begins to shape itself — slowly, delicately, in its own rhythm.
Not a release. Not an announcement.
Just a whisper from the process.
A reminder that some stories mature slowly, and perhaps that is their natural way of becoming… ...more

28/09/2025

Between silence and giving, a story begins to unfold.




.. more than a year has passed since my last post.
In that time I traveled, created, questioned, and paused.
Now I feel ready to share a story that has been unfolding quietly inside me.

2025 was an intense year, full of travel and insights.
I am still digesting all that I learned.
Among other journeys, I went to Asia twice and spent 47 days traveling through the Balkans.

On one of those trips to Asia, I visited Nepal — where something shifted within me.
Among the mountains and temples, I was drawn to a quiet place: a nunnery in Kathmandu.
There, I met little nuns, some as young as three, who filled the silence with strength and grace.
Though I cannot share their names or faces, I carry their presence within me.

From this experience, a new project was born: a book that blends memory, imagination, and the wish to give back.
It is an unfolding journey — still shaping itself in silence — inspired by mornings of stillness, by questions that stayed with me, and by the courage I witnessed in those young nuns.

This book is not only art — it is also action.
Its main purpose is to raise funds to support the little nuns in their daily needs: food, education, and safe living conditions.
In this way, creativity becomes a bridge between worlds.

In the months ahead, I will share more about this journey — the writing process, the inspiration, and the ways this project hopes to create impact.
I invite you to walk with me, to read, to reflect, and to be part of this unfolding path... ...more

04/03/2024

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#art #science #environment #social #exhibition
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26/02/2024

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26/02/2024

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24/01/2024

Re-Emerging Project - http://re-emerging.it/

Through this link, you will get a good idea of the new project I am participating in, "Re-Emerging." We are three photographers, two researchers from the local university in Venice, Ca' Foscari, and an organization dedicated to protecting the lagoon, Corila. This project will leave a historical memory for future generations of Venice. I am grateful for being part of this memory. I look forward to your presence during the exhibition that will run in Venice, from the 1st to the 15th of March.
http://re-emerging.it/
#exhibition #fineartphotography #newproject #art #science #social #environmental #venice #italy #venezia #italia

16/10/2023

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11/08/2021

Transforming reality and surrendering into an unpredictable flow...
I am inviting the "unknown strength" of the past to rejoin the light of the present, embracing reflections and motion.

Earth and water..wood deep in the water...
At water..underwater you were born..not exactly a perfect place but a perfect place it became...
Serenissima, you are!..through your past, your majestic style..through your orange sun rises and sunsets.
A pearl of the lagoon..serene..Serenissima..you are!

16/08/2019

Stories and evolution, this new series is called "Fragments", an immersive experience of gut feelings. I am once again excited to divulge my work and hopefully provoke an imaginative state within. Jump into the unknown...


Colours saying goodbye.
Asleep they were.
Disconnected pieces making up one.
They inspired a sense of implosion and freedom.
Gone! Joy no longer. Making room for the new..it belongs to something greater…

30/09/2018

Shimmering


It's always lovely to present a new piece, specially when it's part of a series. 'Shimmering' is the third piece of the series 'Dreams'. I'm thrilled!

One drop, one form, one flow. Purity.
The journey is delicate and smooth, the drop twinkles and eventually falls into the attractiveness of the illusion.
Not only a midstream. Sometimes it is a reflection of the 'reality' or a reflection of whatever it encounters.
Wholesome or distorted?



*Selling through: http://www.saatchiart.com/val_masferrer_oliveira

24/01/2018

The first artwork of the series Dreams is called The Swans, a dialog between presence and absence, movement and stillness..
It was presented at the Ateneo de Madrid, in October 2017 in Spain.

Dense fog in slow motion..
Small island moves like a cloud in the deep see of the unconscious mind.
Fluidity, intuition..”sangkalpa”!!!
Transformation.
Lucid emptiness..infinite possibility.
Is it a shadow? Inner child?
No identification but they talk..
No judgement but they talk..what are they saying?
A sense of protection starts to rise..it’s not so clear its presence anymore..

Size: 65cm x 160cm + 50cm x 160cm + 65cm x 160cm ( 3 panels)
Media: PhotoRag and C-Type Fuji Matt
Edition: 3 prints (signed, numbered)
N.B.: Certificates of authenticity are provided with print.

08/10/2017

Dense fog in slow motion..
Small island moves like a cloud in the deep see of the unconscious mind.
Fluidity, intuition..”sangkalpa”!!!
Transformation.
Lucid emptiness..infinite possibility.
Is it a shadow? Inner child?
No identification but they talk..
No judgement but they talk..what are they saying?
A sense of protection starts to rise..it’s not so clear its presence anymore..

It was a great pleasure for me to exhibit Swan Dream at the Ateneo de Madrid, the first art work of my new series. Thanks again to Paola Trevisan and Rosa Mascarell for organising another great show. Creative beautiful works, great people in an amazing venue with the perfect artistic atmosphere. ...more

25/12/2013

Feeling special to be part of the Art Journal publication. Three full page article about Variations, International Exhibition in Bologna, last november. Again, great to be among 72 artist of 30 different countries, to take part at the Art Journal and, specially, to win the Public Choice Award. It was an amazing year! A lot to celebrate!! Hope you're having a great Holiday Season. Stay in touch. I have a feeling that 2014 is going to be the year… ...more