A visual artist with a bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Bahia, Rebeca Carapiá was born in Cidade Baixa, in the city of Salvador. She is interested in the relations produced between language, conflict, body and territory, where she creates and organizes a set of practices and reflections through different platforms of exhibition, training and artistic experimentation. Through sculptures, copper on canvas, drawings, installations, prints, texts and objects, her research seeks to create a cosmology around the conflicts of the language and body norms, in addition to expanding a geopolitical debate that involves memory, environmental racism, precariousness economies, ancestral technologies, sexual and gender dissidences and the power relations between speech and word.
“Pivô Satélite – Rebeca Carapiá – Programa público: Como instalar Para-raios para energias confusas“, 2020. Duration 60’52”
“Aula pública: Arte e mídias – Tecnodiversidade e anti-racismo, Universidade Federal da Bahia“, 2021. Duration 118’08”
“Aula pública: Financiamentos no campo das artes: experiências e possibilidades, Universidade Federal da Bahia“, 2020. Duration 122’05”
A visual artist with a bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Bahia, Rebeca Carapiá was born in Cidade Baixa, in the city of Salvador. She is interested in the relations produced between language, conflict, body and territory, where she creates and organizes a set of practices and reflections through different platforms of exhibition, training and artistic experimentation. Through sculptures, copper on canvas, drawings, installations, prints, texts and objects, her research seeks to create a cosmology around the conflicts of the language and body norms, in addition to expanding a geopolitical debate that involves memory, environmental racism, precariousness economies, ancestral technologies, sexual and gender dissidences and the power relations between speech and word.
Inquiring about how to talk about difference without explaining it and performing the deconstruction of feminine geographies, in 2020 she opened her notebooks in her first solo exhibition, “Como colocar ar nas palavras”, which took place at Galeria Leme in São Paulo.
She participated in the group exhibitions “Enciclopédia Negra” at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2021; “Os dias antes da quebra” at Pivô, where she presented the work “Para raios para energias confusas”; from the IMS Invites program with the series of prints “Das palavras que não vou dizer”; “Metal contras as nuvens”: A meeting between artists Koffi Mensah Akagbor and Rebeca Carapiá at Goethe Bahia and at the 3rd SESC Arts Triennial – “O rio é um serpente”. Among other projects, she participated in the Veículo Sur 2020 residency program, the PlusAfroT residency at Villa Waldberta in Germany in 2019 and the II Residency Program at the Valongo International Image Festival.
Academic Formation
2021
-Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
-Master degree in visual arts
2013-2019
-Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
-Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts
2013
-Photography, SENAC, Bahia, Brasil
2007-2010
-Audiovisual production by UNIJORGE, Salvador, Brasil
-Audiovisual direction by Teatro Villa Velha, Salvador, Brasil
-Represented by Galeria Leme
Solo Exhibitions
2020
-“Como colocar ar nas palavras”, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. Curatorship: Diane Lima
Collective Exhibitions
2022
-“Stella do Patrocínio – A história que fala”, Bispo do Rosário Museum Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021
-“A terceira edição de Frestas – Trienal das Artes: O rio é uma Serpente”, SESC, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. Curatorship: Beatriz Lemos, Diane Lima e Thiago de Paula Souza.
-“Recado de Ourém”, Grão-Pará sec. XIX, Martinha Santa, Enciclopédia negra, São Paulo State Pinacoteca, São Paulo, SP. Curatorship Lilia Schwarcz and Jaime Lauriano.
-“Das palavras que não vou dizer”, Exhibition program: “IMS Convida”, Moreira Salles Institute, São Paulo, SP. Curatorship: Heloisa Espada.
2020
-“Para raios para energias confusas, Pivô Satélite: Os dias antes da quebra, Pivô arte e pesquisa”, São Paulo, SP. Curatorship: Diane Lima.
-“Palavras de ferro e ar, Arte em Campo”, Pacaembu, São Paulo, SP.
-“Velas para barcos feitos para afundar, Metal conta as nuvens”: A meeting between the artists Koffi Mensah Akagbor from Burkina Faso and Rebeca Carapiá from Brazil. Curatorship: Tiago Sant’ana.
2019
-“Como colocar ar nas palavras, Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem – O melhor da viagem é a demora”, Santos, SP. Curatorship: Diane Lima.
2018
-“Fantasmagorias Negro-femininas: As Caretas do Mingau, Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem – Não me guarde na retina”, Santos, SP. Curatorship: Diane Lima.
-“Exposição pública de lambes”, Foto na rua, Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil.
-“Mostra Multi-Negras”, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA.
Participation in Artistic Residencies
2021
-Curatorial project: “Stella do Patrocínio – A história que fala”, Bispo do Rosário Museum Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Curatorship: Diane Lima.
-“Spelling Desire ou E se o desejo fosse neutro”, Lastro and Pro Helvetia plataform – Coincidence, Brazil-Switzerland. Curatorship: Beatriz Lemos and Jonas Van.
2020
-Study Program, “Frestas – Trienal das Artes: O rio é uma Serpente”, SESC, Sorocaba, São Paulo. Curatorship: Beatriz Lemos, Diane Lima and Thiago de Paula Souza.
-Veiculo Sur, Helsinque – Brazil. Curatorship: Mario Lopes.
2019
-“Como colocar ar nas palavras, Valongo Festival Internacional da Imagem”, Santos, SP. Curatorship: Diane Lima.
-PlusAFrot, performance of the research “Cessar fogo – Qual buraco cabe o seu próprio peso, Munique”, Germany. Curatorship: Mário Lopez and Diane Lima.
Texts and Published Works
-ENCICLOPÉDIA NEGRA, Biografias afro-brasileiras, Companhia das letras, São Paulo, SP, 2021Organização: Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Jaime Lauriano e Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.
-SILVA, R. CARAPIÁ.S.; Textos com Ar, “Textes à lire à voix haute” (Textos para ler em voz alta). Brook Éditions, França, 2021. Curatorship: Diane Lima, Cíntia Guedes e Abigail Campos Leal. Tradução: Luana Almeida, Valentina D’Avenia, Lea Meier e Aurore Zachayus.
-SILVA, R. CARAPIÁ.S.; Das palavras que não vou dizer, Programa de exposição: “IMS Convida”, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, SP, 2020. Curatorship: Heloisa Espada.
-SILVA, R. CARAPIÁ.S.; Para minha Dinda, Homo ludens- A brasa e o fanal. Fortaleza, CE, Ed. Reticências, 2020. Organização: Tarcisio Almeida e Flávia Memória.
-SILVA, R. CARAPIÁ.S. Aqui dentro das coisas, Blog Tenda Livros, São Paulo, SP, 2020.
-SILVA, R. CARAPIÁ.S.; Entre dias de Sol e a despedida, Revista Gravidade, Salvador, BA, 2019.
Awards
-PIPA Prize nominee – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 2021
-Works in Collections
-São Paulo State Pinacoteca, participation in fairs and auctions
-SP-Arte Viewing Room, 2020, 2021.
-9º Annual Pivot Auction, 2020.
