Sin U Lam | Afonso Rocha | Daniel Roibal
 
Summer is often synonymous with sunshine and heat. Yet sunlight is a tender tyrant — it offers warmth, inflicts stings, and insists on truth in return. To welcome and embrace this overwhelming joy in sight, Tiderip’s third exhibition Soft Burn brings together three painters whose practices radiate with colour, clarity, and contradiction. Here, brightness transcends seasonality, which is psychological, political, and performative.
 
In the mid-19th century, Baudelaire asked in Les Fleurs du Mal how to preserve the fleeting experience of modernity under a sunlight that both nurtures and destroys. The wonder continues. From layered memory to intimate satire and immersive contemplation, each artist in this exhibition proposes a unique way of working with vibrant hues to capture emotional states, transitional moments, and deeply personal narratives. Their works evoke the sensation of a summer day in flux: sun-drunk, restless, nostalgic, and searching.





Featuring Artists

Sin U Lam (b. 2001, Macau, China) draws from Macau’s richly layered cultural identity, translating the city’s East-meets-West visual language into fluid, abstract compositions. Her paintings embrace a sense of impermanence — forms dissolve and reassemble, echoing the transient nature of place and memory. Balancing spontaneity with structure, her work captures the quiet tension between past and present, between holding on and letting go.
 
Afonso Rocha (b. 1999, Portugal) lives and works in London, UK. He received an MA in Fine Arts from the City & Guild of London Art School in 2024 and a BA (Hons) from the Porto Faculty of Fine Arts in 2021, with a semester-long stay at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Rocha has been awarded prizes including the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the ACS x City & Guilds Studio Prize, a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for Studies Abroad, the D. Fernando II Painting Award, an Innovate Artist Grant Honourable Mention and an ArtsinSquare Grant. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize, exhibiting at the Bankside Gallery, London. He recently had his first institutional solo show “No Jardim” at the Sintra Museum of Arts in Lisbon, Portugal. Rocha’s work has been included in multiple exhibitions and is held in public and private collections in Portugal, UK, Spain, France, Brazil and Luxembourg.

Daniel Roibal (b. 2001, Spain) lives and works in London. His practice emerges from deep contemplation. Influenced by a meditative walk through the forest, his paintings reflect the stillness and unpredictability of the natural world. For Roibal, painting becomes a way to pause time — creating environments where viewers can slow down and reconnect with themselves, each other, and the surrounding world through colour, motion, and presence.