(this page was last updated in July 2017)
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, 1980.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Represented by Galeria Jaqueline Martins and Gallerie Emmanuel Hervé.
PIPA 2014, 2015 and 2017 nominee.
BFA in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP- São Paulo) and a MA in Visual Poetics from UNICAMP-SP. In 2011/12 she was a participant in the Independent Study Program at Escola São Paulo (PIESP) directed by Adriano Pedrosa. In 2013 she was selected for the artistic Residence at Cité des Arts – Paris with a scholarship from FAAP.
With a pluralistic practice that challenges and explores the structures, materiality and histories of representation and visuality, often in relation to the distinction between the theatrical and the real in contemporary life. Mazzei’s work spans a broad range of media that creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks including sculpture, photography, prints, video and sound, which normally converge in installations. From walking through markets to driving down the road – as integral parts of her production: to understand that everyday we are performing on every level and we are always in costume shifting perception and drawing attention to the act of seeing. Inspired by the educational ideas of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal authors of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed and The Theatre of the Oppressed. Mazzei’s replayed things, roles, movements, patterns, repeated words and sentences, reanimated feelings. Ana is a member and founder of Teatro Facada.
Website: www.anamazzei.net
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes, exclusively for PIPA Prize 2017:
“If you say I’ve been a bird”, Ana Mazzei-
I make my notations as if I were telling a story, as when I was a child, back in my native land, I learnt that the desert grows and ultimately covers other desert lands, and that all stories are but a single one.
I heard that there used to be lands fervently dreamt of and longed for, described, sought out and registered, that would later vanish. To find them one required a precise set of coordinates and an overflying vision impervious to fixing the eyes on a single point or thing, and if eventually this happened it was identified as a symbol of something else: almost always from up high and afar, in a distanced perspective – one which offers a “perception of the whole”, an overview – and which allows us to work with the multiple scales of a strategy.
I look at photographs of cities and architectural blueprints that are already in a state of suspension due to it’s very condition, inhabiting the field of floating identities, in a sort of limbo, forgotten in archive shelves or even stacked in cardboard boxes, without any classification criteria. Having lost its utilitarian character – that of location – they start to inhabit the territory of the non-referential, the un-belonging. Combinable, interchangeable elements, whose core lies in the inherent conditions of the archive, an endless jigsaw puzzle, a utopia, that is, an imaginary world, governed by its own rules; another world, whose topology is identifiable from the airspace and which evokes, next to the archetype of the “ideal habitat”, a great dream, that of moving around freely in the air and ascending infinite heights, of reaching an absolute, of becoming immortal.
Education:
2011 – 2012
– Program of Independent Studies of the São Paulo School (PIESP) directed by Adriano Pedrosa, São Paulo, Brazil.
2008 – 2010
– Master in Visual Poetry, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
2002-2006
– Bachelor of Fine Arts, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil
Solo exhibitions:
2016
– “Moving in Straight lines”, Fundacion Saludarte, Miami, USA
– “Demasque et nu”, Galerie Emmanuel Herve, Paris, France
2015
-“O Monólito e a Sentinela”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
-“Speech about the sun”, Davide Gallo, Milano, Italy
2014
-“Avistador de Passaros, CCSP, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
-Liste Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland with galeria Jaqueline Martins
2014
– “Se disser que fui Pássaro”, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Et nous, nous marchons inconnus”, Galerie Emmanuel Herve, Paris, France
2013
– “Couvert de Son Manteau Couleur Safran”, La Maudite, Paris, France
2012
– “Ela caminha em direção à fronteira”, Galeria Zipper, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Amigo estranho”, Galeria Polinesia, São Paulo, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2016
– 32ª International Biennial of São Paulo, Incerteza Viva, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Quadro, Requadro”, Instituto Tomie Othake, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
– “1(um), BFA Boatos”, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Arquitecturas y espacios en la Colección Rac”, Fondación Rac, Madrid, Spain
– “Encruzilhada”, Parque lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Tudo que é sólido desmancha no ar”, galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil
– “No sound”, galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
– “Museu de Arte Brasileira- MAB / Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado” – FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
– Artissima, Torino, Italy with galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, France
– “Feito por Brazileiros / Made by Brasileiros”, Hospital Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil – curator Marc Pottier
– “Taipa-Tapume”, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil – curator Tomas Toledo
– “Carte blanche à Emmanuel Hervé”, caroline pagès gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
– SP Arte, São Paulo, Brazil with galeria Jaqueline Martins
– “Carne de minha perna”, Gallerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, France
2013
– “Escalas”, Estudio Alvaro Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil
2012
– Salão de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná, MAC, Curitiba, Brazil
– Exposição da PIESP, Instituto Cervantes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– “Nichi nichi kore ko niche”, Espaço Phosporus, São Paulo, Brazil
2011
– Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, MARP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
– “Red Bull House Of Art”, 5ª Edição, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Sem Nome”, Espaço Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
– “Vistas a perder de vista”, Galeria Penteado, Campinas, Brazil
– “TRANS_ imagem”, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
– “Lo-fi Kibutz”, Galeria Polinésia, São Paulo, Brazil
2008
– “Colônia Selvagem Show Room”, Galeria Polinésia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Wet Blue – Paisagens Salgadas”, Espaço Casa de Quem, São Paulo, Brazil
– “3,4,5…mulheres”, Espaço Casa de Quem, São Paulo, Brazil
2004/2003
– 35° Anual de Arte FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
– 34ª Anual de Arte FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil
– 33ª Anual de Arte Faap , São Paulo, Brazil
– “Anita”, Edifício Lutetia, São Paulo, Brazil
– “LABOR II”, São Paulo, Brazil
Residencies
2014 — Pivô, Pivô Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil
2013 — Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2013 — Casa Tomada, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 — PAF – Perform Art Forum, St. Erme, France
2011 — Red Bull House Of Art, 5ªEdition, São Paulo, Brazil
Awards:
2005
– FAAP yearly art scholarship, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
– FAAP artistic residency – Cité Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Special Projects and Publications:
2014
– “Citadela” – Solo Project for the Liste Art Faire – Basel with Gallery Jaqueline Martins
2007 – 2001
– Member and founder of Teatro Facada
Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2015:
Video produced by Matrioska Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2014:
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