Vitoria, Brazil, 1971.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The work results from a blend of languages, from sound and visual arts; my education being in music, piano, composition, including electroacoustic. The early works search for that hybrid territory between sound/time and the space physical/location; Paisagens Subterrâneas (2000) [Eventos Acarte 2000, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa] and Mobile (2000) [Ateliê Finep, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro] expose such transference of creative processes and procedures, applied to the
musical composition and music presentations, to a new context of interaction and contemplation involving people and work.
The installations “Sound Field (2002) [Sound in the Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York], “Escape” (2003) [Zagreb Bank, 22º Music Biennale Zagreb, Zagreb, Croácia], “Residuu” (2005) [Paço dos Açoreanos, 5a Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil] and “Sentinelas” (2004, 2008) [Treble, Sculpture Center, New York, are works that intrinsically relate with the surrounding space and architecture.
Through visual and sound devices, strategically located in the space, they indicate invisible paths in an empty space, where sounds developing along space and time, suggest imagined discourses, as in an open composition, of multiple entries and exits, in association with the complexity of the layers of sound. Encompassing realms where the device (loudspeakers, gadgets) and its vicinity, subject and work, complement each other or merge.
The sculptures and objects in general work in the crossing between the physicality of the materials and devices employed (glass, plastics, cold light, loudspeakers, electronic devices, granite, metal, mirrors…), their plastic and visual forms, and sounds and silences, or simply the idea of some sound, determined or not. A sound leads to a thought or inner recollection that, in turn, evokes an atmosphere.
Lately, I have been deepening this inter dependency among the plastic, acoustic and linguistic domains. Recently some of these works such works display the elements functionally
associated with the production of sound, loudspeakers, wires, acoustic materials, completely “de- functionalized”, acting just as a mental device to induce the imagination of a sound or the simple expectation of something that would sound or even talk.[“Palavras Cruzadas”; Art and Patrimony Prize, Iphan 70 years, Paço Imperial; “kms5n6j6jw6EHkuhuf7ytgEQg4jk46a45h”, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio, 2011]
Solo Exhibitions
2011
-“kms5n6j6jw6EHkuhuf7ytgEQg4jk46a45h”, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-“Ectoplasma”, Galeria Moro, Santiago, Chile.
2009
-“V(ar)iações”, Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2008
-“Palavras Cruzadas (Crosswords)”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Sentinelas”, Prêmio Arte e Patrimônio, Palácio Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2007
-Galeria Matias Brotas, Vitória, Brazil.
2006
-“Visita”, Projeto Respiração – Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Nympheas”, Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2005
-“O Feitiço”, Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“The Legend of The Lake”, Art in General, New York, USA.
2003
-“Instalasônica”, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002
-“Escape”, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.
2000
-“Mobile”, Ateliê Finep, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions
2011
-Novas Aquisições Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2010
-“Porto de Aproximação”, A Céu Aberto, Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009
-63º Salão Paranaense, MAC – Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
-“Nova Arte Nova”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo. Brazil.
2008
-“The Warsaw Experience 01”, Lokal Gallery_30, Warsaw, Poland.
-“Anêmona”, N-Múltiplos, Galeria Murilo Castro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
-“Nova Arte Nova”, Cultural Center Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Alga”, Arquivo Geral, Cultural Center of Justiça Eleitoral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“Anjo”, Poética da Percepção, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“lug(AR)”, Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vitória, Brazil.
-“Deserto”, Arte e Música, Conjunto Cultural da Caixa (CCC), Brasília, Brazil.
2007
-“Real Imaginário”, Museu como Lugar, Museu Imperial, Petrópolis, Brazil.
-“Deserto”, Futuro do Presente, Itaúcultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Deserto”, Equatorial Rhythms, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway.
2006
-“Nympheas”, Geração da Virada, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
-“Deserto”, Câmaras de Luz, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-“No Fear”, Contra Golpe, Instituto Divorciados, Berlin, Germany.
-“Stereo Desert”, Open Studio Project, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
-“Sala de Estar”, Prêmio Projéteis Funarte, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2005
-“Residuu”, 5ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
-“A Lenda do Lago 2.1”, Arte Brasileira Hoje, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2004
-“Sentinels, “Treble”, Sculpture Center, New York, USA.
2003
-“Iron Works”, The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY, USA.
-“Escape”, Zagreb Bank, 22º Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia.
-“Radio Polyphony”, The Thing / Diapason Gallery, New York, USA.
2002
-“Sound Field”, “Sound in the Landscape”, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York, USA
2000
-“Paisagens Subterrâneas”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
Sound projects / Shows / Radio
2005
-“RADIO INCORPOREA – Vivacqua/Marulanda”, Art in General, New York, USA.
2004
-“Rio Sound and Art Projects”, Live Constructions, WKCR FM, New York, USA.
-“Contra Bossa”, BBC, The World Today Sound Art, London, UK.
-Debussy Bach Restaurant, “Isto é Música (?/!)”, CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Scholarships, Residencies and Awards
2008
-Art and Patrimony Prize, Iphan 70 years
2006
-Open Studio Project, Cairo, Egypt
-Projéteis Funarte Prize
2001
-Virtuose Scholarship, MINC, Brazil
Collections
-Gilberto Chateaubriand
-Fundação Vera Chaves Barcelos
