Modern frame with sober, minimalist lines, composed of a glass piece and a silver structure.

Includes a special wooden box, designed to protect and showcase the piece with elegance.

“There is a square passe-partout resting on the table. The 2 mm thick steel wire support comes from a mirror I once designed. It bends — now in silver — following the curve of the framed face. There is a cut corner; the passe-partout tilts, breaking the rigid geometry. My face moves, mirroring the metal support — a meeting between that curve and myself. As I recognise the other me, I feel alive and the same as ever. I tilt my head to one side and then the other, thinking of the many ‘selves’ that inhabit me — head upright or tilted in a thousand ways. Transparent, an image behind… no longer reflects much. The passe-partout is a mirror: a reflection of myself, another me.” — Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza is one of the most emblematic architects of the 20th century, and one of the names with which Portugal is associated in any part of the world, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1992. It was in 1991 that Álvaro Siza was invited to design the Museum of Art Contemporary by Serralves, which opened in 1999.

In 2019, he completed the architectural project for the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira and in 2021 the restoration and adaptation of the Casa de Serralves. Maintaining, until today, a collaborative relationship with the institution and its programming.