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BIO Grécia Paola is a Luso-Venezuelan artist born in Caracas, living between Madeira and Porto. Has a Masters in Fine Arts-Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2019) with the title «An Inexhaustible Will of 8: An exercise of sculpting time in artistic practice», and a Higher Degree in Fine Arts-Sculpture in the same institution. Having already exhibited at Vila Nova de Cerveira (2018) and at the Lugar do Desenho – Júlio Resende Foundation (2018), Cantanhede Biennale and having developed public space projects in Madeira (2011) and in Porto in the context of PortoCartoon (2019), Grécia Paola develops a plastic proposal based on the triad body – will – matter. Questions concerning gesture, movement, desire, body, time and, in particular, concerning the ephemeral, are materialized through the spatialized practice of sculpture, installation, drawing and / or video. Thus, in Grécia Paola’s artistic practice, the body is conceived from a psychophysiological point of view and the eye is invited, seduced to want to enter the non-immediate. This artistic research is, also, based on the anxiety of the physical and of the immaterial body through constructive and, sometimes, destructive processes, associated with a will for involvement between a body and an action. ARTIST'S STATEMENT My work is centered on the triad body – will – matter. Through an experimental work, the body explores its limits in an endless gesture capable of generating repulsion-attraction, exhaustion, or challenges that demand from the observer to seek and to go beyond. These challenges that ask the observer to move, to bend over or to interact with the object, manifest as an invitation close to Jean Baudrillard's concept of seduction. Thus, it is through sculpture, drawing and video that the body is conceived from a psychophysiological point of view in an exercise of stimulating and inviting the eye-body in a gesture of seduction towards the non-immediate. In my artistic research it is possible to notice a certain gestural and procedural repetition that explores an exhaustion resembling the machinic body. But essentially, the artistic production I develop focuses on fragility, dichotomy and on the ephemeral dimension of life through ductile materials and through the perpetuity of the stone. Finally, my artistic project seeks in an assumed experimental reflection and production, to understand how the creative will operates as a creative agent in the midst of a production centered on the action of gesture, movement, desire, and time in a body built on the temporality of matter. AWARDS 2019 - Sculpture of the PortoCartoon 2019 Grand Prix - Jardim das Oliveiras (Passeio dos Clérigos). Porto. ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 2020 -Conter – Paisagens Evasivas. Gallery: Dentro. Porto. -O Lugar dos Afectos – Buraco Negro. Artistic-sociological project. Partnership with the Social Research Laboratory. Prison Establishment of Funchal. Funchal. 2019 - An Inexhaustible Will of Infinite. Museum FBAUP. Porto. Sculpture of the Grand Prix of Portocartoon 2019 Jardim das Oliveiras (Passeio dos Clérigos). Porto. COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 2022 -CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2022. ITSLIQUID GROUP. Venice 15 jully - 05 august -EXPODOC22. Commissioned by María Gárgoles Navas and David Llorente Sanz. Exhibition Hall BBAA. Madrid. -Tocar, Suspender, Cingir e Pender… Curator: Ana Martins. Museum FBAUP. 2021 -Plateau. The Studio. Curator: Colectivo Hera. Porto. 2020 -Além do Princípio do Prazer. Gallery Dentro. Porto -Paisagens Invasivas- Jardim Flutuante. Gallery Extéril. Porto A Conspiração da Arte. Zet gallery. Braga. 2019 -As Parcas. Beer Factory. LUZA Festival. Faro. - 1ª Bienal of Cantanhede. Municipal House of Culture of Cantanhede. Cantanhede. - 1ª Bienal of Cantanhede. Expofacic. Cantanhede. -Oscilo. Gallery Cozinha, FBAUP. Porto. 2018 -Sudeste - Noroeste, Prelada's House. Porto. Noroeste - Sudeste, novas perspetivas em Desenho, Lugar do Desenho, Foundation Júlio Resende. Gondomar. -Em Residência ou Talvez Não, Factory. Vila Nova de Cerveira. -Segunda Oportunidade, Warehouses of Santa Clara. Porto. -Bucha, Faculty of Science of the University of Porto. Porto. 2017 -Ahmae, vai-se ver a exposição dos buzicos? Gallery Geraldes da Silva. Porto. -Uma espécie de diálogo, Santos Pousada Health Unit. Porto. -Indo Eu, Indo Eu, a Caminho do Museu, Museum FBAUP. Porto. -Desconforma, CTT Palace. Porto. 2016 -A Minha Cabeça… Mi Cabeza”, Gallery Cozinha, FBAUP. Porto. -TUBO DE ENSAIO, FBAUP. Porto. 2015 -Metrónomo, S. Bento Subway. Porto. -O Desenho no Museu Anatómico – Partilhas e Experiências Pedagógicas, Foyer of the Main Hall of ICBAS/FFUP. Porto. 2013 -Arte Erótica VI, Municipal Auditorium of Gondomar. Gondomar. ARTISTIC RESIDENCES 2018 Second Chance – Segunda Oportunidade! Santa Clara. Porto. 2017 Manhattan Marxism / Wool Works / Exploitation / Strange Teaching / Wool Works / Exploitation, FBAUP + Panorama Boa Vista. Porto. PERFORMANCE PARTICIPATION 2018 MUURMLGR by Manoel Barbosa. Cerveira Biennial Foundation. Vila Nova de Cerveira. 2017 UndoIt, Exhibition Pavilion of FBAUP. Porto. Do It, Exhibition Pavilion of FBAUP. Porto. 2015 Iluminados by José António Asensio, Museum of FBAUP. Porto. |