Julião Sarmento has developed a visual discourse that looks into memory and transgression, seduction, and desire. The richness and complexity of his work lies in a system of free signifiers travelling through the works and across his own limits. The use of regular patterns such as the expression of the hands, body language, and architectural floor plans achieves a free-play of associations that avoid settling into one meaning.

Silver Lake Yellow Boob (2010/2011) is from his Silver Lake series of canvases. The white surfaces of the paintings and the partially erased forms (significant markers of Sarmento’s painting practice) coexist with silkscreened images in three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. In Silver Lake Yellow Boob the silkscreened photographic image of an exposed breast becomes highly charged against the white impasto surface and graphite sketch of Rudolph Schindler's McAlmon House from Silver Lake in Los Angeles.