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Rosana Paulino, A Costura da Memória, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2018

I'm concerned with the issue of archetypes and of psychology, a Black female psychology.

– Rosana Paulino

Rosana Paulino’s work centers around social, ethnic, and gender issues, focusing in particular on black women in Brazilian society and the various types of violence suffered by this population due to racism and the lasting legacy of slavery. Paulino explores the impact of memory on psychosocial constructions, introducing different references that intersect the artist’s personal history with the phenomenological history of Brazil, as it was constructed in the past and still persists today. Her research includes the construction of myths – not only as aesthetical pillars but also as psychic influence-makers. Paulino – whose artistic output is unquestionably fundamental to Brazilian art – has produced a practice of reconstructing images and, beyond that, reconstructing memory and its mythologies. Her body of works brings together female figures and their respective historical elements, supported by psychic traces that map colonial structures and their impact onto the social and aesthetic fabric of our time.

Rosana Paulino (b. 1967, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Her most recent exhibitions include: Novas Raízes, Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro (2024); AMEFRICANA, MALBA, Buenos Aires (2024); The Liability of Threads, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunsvique (2022); O tempo das coisas, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2022); Paraíso Tropical, The Frank Museum of Art – Otterbein University, Westerville (2019); Rosana Paulino: A Costura da Memória, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo (2018); Atlântico Vermelho, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, EGEAC, Lisbon (2017).

Recent group exhibitions include: Ancestral, Museu de Arte Brasileira / FAAP, São Paulo (2024); 35th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2023); 59th International Biennale di Venezia – The Milk of Dreams, Venice (2022); Afro-Atlantic Histories, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (2022); Global Positioning, Public Art Foundation, New York, Boston, Chicago (2022); Brasilidade: Pós Modernismo, CCBB, Brazil (2022); 22nd Sydney Biennial, Sydney (2020); Carolina Maria de Jesus: um Brasil para os brasileiros, Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo (2021); 21o Bienal Sesc VideoBrazil, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo (2019); Slavery in the Hands of Harvard, Harvard University, Boston (2019); Histórias Afro Atlânticas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018); Mulheres Negras – Obscure Beuaté Du Brésil, Espace Culturel Fort Griffon À Besançon, Besançon (2014).
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