Exhibition: Surroundings
Coletivo Amarelo is honored to announce its inaugural exhibition surroundings in Lisbon!
Opening: November 13th at Fábrica Braço de Prata, from 7 pm on the second floor.
This is the collective's first physical exhibition after a year working only digitally. The exhibition marks the role of Coletivo Amarelo in the cultural and artistic panorama of the city of Lisbon, presenting the work of artists from different parts of the world.
Entorno presents the work of seven artists: Juliana Matsumura, Eduardo Dias, Osias André, Gabriela Albuquerque, Martim Meirelles, Natália Loyola and Roberta Goldfarb. The works presented unfold a series of dialogues woven by a common thread: our surroundings.
The exhibition explores how these artists used their practices to dissect their tangible surroundings, giving viewers the possibility to interact with variations on the same concept. The works were subdivided into five subcategories: observation, displacement, territory, documentation and impermanence. Although in the year 2020 the world has drastically changed the engines of human operations towards an essentially virtual life, the “real” environments that surround us are still the ones that most influence our experiences. At the center of the exhibition are the artists' individual abilities to encompass the physicality of their surroundings within a frame. Each work is a response to the visual plane that existed at some point in time and space, crossing its own disciplinary boundaries (painting, photography and video installation) in order to bring the viewer closer to a shared orbit.
Whether through the observation of time, the displacement of the body and identity, the rediscovery of a lost territory, the documentation of experiences or the impermanence of life, the works presented serve as an attempt to build a reflective landscape of reality.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Osias Andre
Osias André, born in Mozambique, emigrated to Portugal four years ago where he won three scholarships from the independent art school Ar.Co, an institution dedicated to experimentation and artistic training. Osias started painting at the age of eight and began his artistic career through graphic illustration, producing a collection of books. For him, painting requires a slower and more indirect digestion. The paintings presented here are linked to their African origins, while at the same time reflecting Osias' search for identity conducted through a traditional European studio practice. Osias currently lives and works in Lisbon.
Juliana Matsumura
Juliana Matsumura is a Brazilian artist who currently lives and works in Lisbon. He graduated in Design from Escola Ar.Co, and attended the Graduation in Textiles and Fashion at the University of São Paulo. The artist is also a member of Risco Coletivo, a collective of contemporary drawing practices. Drawing is central to her practice, using various tools such as engraving, photography and painting. Juliana currently lives and works in Lisbon.
Natalia Loyola
Natália Loyola has a degree in Social Communication & Journalism and is also finishing her Masters in Anthropology – Visual Cultures at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research focuses mainly on the exercise of observation of the places he circulates, especially in urban landscapes. Natália's photographs are a construction of imagetic territorial markers of her own migratory process, all seen from her interactions with the city itself and its inhabitants. Natália currently lives and works in Almada, Portugal.
Gabriela Albuquerque
Gabriela Albuquerque is a Brazilian artist who works and lives in Cascais. His current research focuses on recurring landscapes and developments beyond the historical academic tradition of this genre. The almost compulsive repetition of images seeks to exalt the paradox between the permanence and impermanence of our environment, of what is familiar to us, but also ephemeral. The choice of oil paint as a support, which follows a centuries-old tradition, questions the continuity of certain practices that persist despite constant innovations. Gabriela's work tensions the tradition of oil painting in the context of contemporary art.
Eduardo Dias
Eduardo Dias is a biologist from São Paulo, Brazil and currently works at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie as a Laboratory Technician at the Center for Research in Biosciences. His practice takes him to Brazilian biomes such as the Pantanal, the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, among other destinations, and photography plays an important role in his travels. He uses it as a tool to give wings to his imagination, but also as a means to create a didactic repertoire in which his knowledge of biology merges with art.
Martim Meirelles
Martim Meirelles is an American photographer who lives and works in New York. Of Portuguese descent, Martim travels between the USA, Portugal and Mozambique. His photographic research documents human lives that live on the margins of economic prosperity and share the same Portuguese linguistic origin. In his work, there is a focus on beauty, pain and joy, highlighting the artist's ability to approach each subject with a profound visual sensitivity. The photographs presented here result from a one-year stay at the Madre Maria Clara orphanage in Mozambique in 2017 and also from an artist residency in Nazaré in 2014.
Roberta Goldfarb
Roberta Goldfarb is a Brazilian artist who currently lives and works in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Publicity and Propaganda (FAAP, 2001) with emphasis in photography from Senac (São Paulo), La Escuela de la Imagen y el Diseño and Center Cívic Pati Llimona (Barcelona) and International Center of Photography (New York). Her research is driven by the artist's desire to collect and catalog physical objects and experiences that would otherwise be lost to memory. Roberta builds spheres of feelings and meanings by displaying what she sees with her eyes. Among the exhibitions in which he participated, the most notable are “Dizer Fazer” (Ateliê RG, SP, 2014), “While Tempo” (Oficina Oswald de Andrade, SP, 2014), Clube dos Colecções (NowHere, Lisbon, 2020) and the solo show “Uprisings, gusts of wind or plans to see the world” (Ateliê RG, SP, 2014) and “Preambles to a World Tale” (Galeria Rabieh, SP, 2012). He is currently participating in the group show “Toll of Me – Foco Brasil” (Not a Museum, Lisbon).
Curated by Stephanie Wruck
To receive the complete catalog of the exhibition, send us an email to: contact@coletivoamarelo.com