In his new exhibition at the Museu da Água, artist João Murta brings us Antes do Mar, as Águas, a tribute to the invisible but fundamental time of every crossing. New parenthood emerges as a bed where life is forced to slow down. One cannot hasten the birth of a new identity, nor shorten the time of care to keep up with the suffocating rhythm of the outside world. In the containers of his studio, the watery paints that dry slowly, marks of works interrupted by family life, become amulets of time that was not wasted, but lived. painting.