Caroline Ricca Lee

“Invitation to SEW in your skin, performance ”, 2016. Duration 0’44”

“ TERRA/mãe, video performance [VHS]”, 2020. Duration 1’01”

“ TERRA/mãe, performance”, 2020. Duration 554’34”

“ phantom/memoir, video-instalação”, 2021. Duration 0’10”

“ MOTHER/ship — #001 Unspoken, video-instalação ”, 2021. Duration ‘”

Critical text for exhibition terra/MÃE – CCSP, text by Dianel Lima

Clipping collection – Caroline Ricca Lee — 2023

Education
2020/2021 — Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), Scientific research, Supervisor: Profª Drª Laura Moutinho, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2020/2021 — Center for Studies on Social Markers of Difference at University of São Paulo (NUMAS-USP), Researcher, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2009/2012 — Santa Marcelina College, Degree in Fashion Design, São Paulo, Brazil
Residencies, grants and fellowships
2023 — PIPA Prize 2023, Nominee, National Contemporary Art Award, PIPA Institute, Brazil
2021 — Against the Grain, Fellowship Program, Futuress, Basel, Switzerland
2021 — 7th Crystal Ruth Bell Residency, Finalist, China Residencies, Beijing, China
2016 — residenzPLUSBrazil16, Artist in residency, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2021
— “MOTHER/land”, Cultural Center of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Collective Exhibitions
2023
— “Aparamento”, Curator: Alexandre dos Anjos, Pivô Institute, 19ª SP–Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
— “From flight to nostrils”, breathe, arms wide, messages in the wind, Curatorship: Nathalia Grillo and Guilherme Teixeira, HOA Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
— “We live for this”, Curatorship: Bruna Fernanda, Érica Burini, Khadyg Fares, Thais Rivitti, Ateliê 397 in partnership with Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
— “1st National Contemporary Art Hall of Goiás”, Curator: Marcio Harum, Museum of Contemporary Art of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
— “World-sensing”, Curator: Tais Koshino, Despace, Berlin, Germany
— “MAGMA”, Curator: Yellena Boni, Refraction International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
— “SP-Arte 2022”, HOA Gallery, 18ª SP–Arte, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
— “This my letter: Lima Barreto and Black Modernism”, Curatorship: Jaime Lauriano, Lilia Schwarcz e Pedro Meira, FLUP, Museum of Afro-Brazillian History and Culture (MUHCAB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021
— “31° Exhibition Program”, Curatorship: Hélio Menezes and Adelaide Pontes, Jury Commitee: Paulete Lindacelva, Sandra Benites and Thiago de Paula Souza, Cultural Center of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
— “No one will drop our flag”, Group Exhibitions, Curator: Julia Lima, Cultural Center of Diversity, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
— “CURAÇÃO”, Curator: Paula Garcia, Adoniran Barbosa Hall, Cultural Center of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
— “Mulatis, Enganastes, Delirastes, Risastis, Côsmicus, Group Exhibitions”, HOA Gallery, ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019
— “The night will never fall asleep in our eyes”, Group Exhibitions, Curator: Carollina Lauriano, Levante Nacional Trovoa, Baró Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
— “HEARTSEWBEAT + Preciso Dizer Que Te Amo”, Melissa Meio-Fio’17, Oficina Theater, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
— “Okkupation Projeto”, Curatorship: Danilo Oliveira and Mario Lopes, Schaufenster der Färberei, Munich, Germany
— “Invitation to SEW in Your Skin”, residenzPLUSBrazil16, Schaufenster der Färberei, Munich, Germany
Article, publication and chapters
2022 — “MOTHER/land — Body-cartographies of Race and Gender in the Asian-Brazilian Identity”, Sixth Annual Symposium of Latin American Art: “Movement & Presence: The Visual Culture of the Americas”, The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Columbia University in the City of New York, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, United States
2021 — Between the “model minority” and the “Chinese virus”, what is left to us? — Reflections on COVID-19, xenophobia and geopolitics, Book Coronavirus: Decolonial reflections, Frontiers of Knowledge series, a partnership between Ocareté ONG, Balão Editorial trade publisher, and UNESCO, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 — Ghost members: Territorial body-territory and art as a cartography of ethnographic investigation, Book Essays of arts, Frontiers of Knowledge series, a partnership between Ocareté ONG, Balão Editorial trade publisher, and UNESCO, São Paulo, Brazil
2020 — Asian feminism: culture of silence, double patriarchies and racial discussion in times of COVID-19, Bulletin The ethnic-racial issue in times of crisis | N. 40, National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (Anpocs), São Paulo, Brazil
2019 — Asian Brazilian narratives: Identity, race and gender, co-author with Lais Miwa Higa and Juily Manghirmalani, Book Essays of racism, Frontiers of Knowledge series, a partnership between Ocareté ONG, Balão Editorial trade publisher, and UNESCO, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 — Asian Feminism, co-author with Lais Miwa Higa and Gabriela “Kemi” Shimabuko, Book Feminist explosion: Art, culture, politics and university, organized by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Companhia das Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Courses and workshops
2021
— Another Histories of Art: Asia, Workshop, Ateliê 387, São Paulo, Brazil
— Textile Art and Feminism: Political experiments in weaving, Workshop and web-exhibition, Sesc Santana, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
— Decoloniality y Asian Contemporary Art, Seminar and group study, Educational Art Center HOA TOUR, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
— Asian feminism and Intersectionality, Seminar of East-Asian Brazilian studies: Representations, intersectionality and geopolitics, Research and Training Center SESC São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Lectures and talks: Art and culture
2021
— Collective Cycles — Raising the issue, Public class, alongside Daiara Tukano and Paulo Gallo, Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2020
— Art and dispute of narratives: Asian-Brazilian dissidents, Talk, alongside Alice Yura, Singh Beam and Cyshimi, SP-Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
— Networking: Art Collectives and digital platforms, Lecture, alongside Levante Nacional TROVOA, Piscina: Platform for Women Artists, CC Space, São Paulo, Brazil
— Asian aesthetics in streetstyle, art and cultura, Talk, alongisde Ale Farah and Simone Pokropp, Nike x Sacai 2019, Hood, São Paulo, Brazil
Lectures and talks: Race and gender studies
2021
— #StopAsianHate: Pandemics, discrimination and anti-racist solidarity, Lecture, Organization: Feminist Observatory of International Relations, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2020
— Migration and racism, Live, Base Warmis Reunion of Cultures, São Paulo, Brazil
— COVID-19: racism and anti-Asian sentiment, Live, Ocareté Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
— Racial perspectives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lecture, XVIII Week of International Relations: Crisis and imperialism in International Relations, PUC, São Paulo, Brazil
— Intersectionality and Asian-Brazilian Feminism: Gender, race, memory, migration and emotion, Lecture, Discipline: Anthropology of Emotions, Profª Drª Laura Moutinho, Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
— Circle of debates: City, Gender and Intersectionality, Lecture, alongside Magô Tonhom, Isabela Sena (Bibliopreta), Sarah de Roure (World March of Women), Moara Brazil and Tabata Tesser, University of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
— Political perspectives on Asian identities, Lecture, alongside Jeffrey Lesser and Gabriela Shimabuku, Organization: Lais Miwa Higa, Center for Studies on Social Markers of Difference (NUMAS-USP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
— Asian diversity: Identity, gender and sexualities, Lecture, alongside Laura Ueno and Rodrygo Tanaka, II Week of Psychology Anhanguera, University of Anhanguera, São Paulo, Brazil
— The fight against social gender exclusion, Lecture, alongside Viviane Peña, Maria Conceição Oliveira, Soraya Misleh, Jobana Moya Aramayo and Bela Feldman, MIM: Immigrant Mission, Al Janiah, São Paulo, Brazil 2017 — Feminism, art and politics, Talk, alongside Mayra Oi, Paola Yuu and Mimma Ito, Organization: Tamy Gushiken, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
— Intersectional Asian feminism: Experience and visibility, Talk, alongside Lais Miwa Higa, Fátima Munir Kassem and Tami Tahira, University of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

“ [COLETIVIDADES] Caroline Ricca Lee, Daiara Tukano e Paulo Galo — EAV Parque Lage”, 2021. Duration 95’10”

My research is driven by cartographies of bodies-territories: a compass to guide through speculative fiction of memories. Through a transdisciplinary practice, fields such as performance, sculpture multimedia installations, video, speculative design, and writing, are entangled to create a testing ground where I collide fiction and reality. Currently, my main question has been: Is ancestry a form of fiction? If you have it, how do you keep it? If you don’t have it, how do you invent it? I’m the fourth generation of Japanese immigrants that came to Brazil as a workforce in periods characterized by the expansion of coffee plantations, in the early 20th century. I’m also from the third generation of Chinese immigrants that left China in the 1960s by migrating through Macau, a Portuguese colony until the 1990s, where my Chinese grandparents discovered this place named “Brazil” — a country that shares a similar Portuguese colonial root as Macau. In light of these facts, it is palpable how my own family history has abysses, making me reflect on the initial questions that define this research. But beyond this matter being personal or subjective, such issues are related in a structural and epistemic way, when several diasporic narratives share the challenge of facing how much was lost in transit, but how much these abysses also built who we are from the diversity of exchanges. Ultimately, I suppose that the aesthetic and poetic outcome in my body of work is a portrait of a constant negotiation between dream and trauma, love and chaos; in this bargain, in which one loses as much as one wins, I produce territories, entities, and narratives that aim to represent a complex, dynamic, and shapeshifting kind of experience: a portrait of the very diversity that I live in my country and culture, equally in my body and identity.

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