“LAND+BODY=Escape” Exhibition

New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation (NARS)

[Image: Bia Monteiro "Re-Measuring the Dry Land"]

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Curated by Tatiane Schilaro

Artists: Liene Bosquê, Júlia Brandão, Maritza Caneca, Karla Caprali, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, Bia Monteiro, Rodrigo Moreira, Júlia Pontés, Alice Quaresma, Luiz d’Orey, Mauricio Mallet, Fernanda Frangetto, Gustavo Prado, Mateu Velasco, and Talita Zaragoza

Featuring fifteen emerging Brazilian artists based across the US and Brazil, LAND+BODY=Escape subverts traditional representations of Brazilian landscapes and bodies. The artists escape, while also seizing upon emblematic images of Brazilianness: from beachfronts to the Amazon rainforest, to the urban megacity. With a majority of women artists represented, identity, race, gender, and sexuality become either underlying themes or are an integral part of their art-making processes. The landscape and the body are re-imagined throughout the show: conflated, or fragmented, parts of blurred, destabilizing memories.