To every mental and tactile object a human brings a legion of hindrances — perpetually preferring, always making assumptions, or treating highly personal idiosyncrasies as generalities. 

So called “abstract art” or “non-objective art” or “non-representational art” or at times even “minimal art” (all equally not-quite-right) are not simpler than other types of art. But rather, for us, are methods that get one more quickly (and plainly) to the complicated essence of these human limitations of perception and cognition. 

Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro is a master of creating situations where this cognitive knotty-ness is brought to a crux. At any given moment Fragateiro engages with attributes that foreground the shortcomings of our logic, employing all manner of: reflections, monochromes, intrinsic colors, latent colors, readymade materials, shadows, concealment, novelty, rhythm, disorder, singularity, illusion, blurriness, crispness, removal/erasure, false space, real space, flatness, false flatness, surfaces generally... 

This work is highly useful — in the deepest sense.