Barreto’s practice spans painting and installation. Her language is abstraction, through which she translates memory, lived experience, and the passage between the ephemeral and the permanent into pictorial gestures that connect her inner world with the outer one.

Femininity, motherhood, and self-reliance surface as recurring themes; each series reinterprets patterns and palettes until it completes its own cycle — a vital gesture that lets her breathe the air of a new beginning.