Sofia Areal

Sofia Areal's (1960, Lisbon, Portugal) special sensitivity for plastic arts and literature is triggered and occupies the space and time since childhood, covering painting, sculpture, drawing, poetry, criticism and literary essay, under the effect and action of her father, António Areal, painter and man of letters, her mother, Lira Keil do Amaral, with training in sculpture and drawing, and also in contact with the architecture and the way of thinking the city, instigated by her paternal grandfather, Joaquim Santiago Areal, and with the arts and culture in general, encouraged by her maternal grandparents, among which lyric music takes a special place by the hand of her maternal grandmother, Dalila dos Passos Freitas.