Overview
My art practice is motivated by a desire to play with the mysterious senses of objects: a jar that is never really a jar; a flower arrangement that talks about something else, as it lies on a table; a landscape that is much more of a mood than just two trees on a dune. 

– Paula Siebra

Paula Siebra is a Brazilian painter born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1998. The artist focuses on images related to everyday life and scenes of intimacy using Brazilian northeastern culture as her starting point. Her paintings emerge from the exploration of established themes such as portraits,  landscapes, and still lifes.  These motifs,  throughout her research,  acquire a  peculiar aspect: a certain simplification in the contours, added to a reduction in the contrast between chromatic tones, polarizing reality, and reverie - as if the artist were daydreaming about ordinary life.

In addition to following a straightforward continuum from tradition, her paintings relate to an inherent visualness of her native land of Ceará and the Brazilian Northeast as a whole. She is particularly close to folk art since her interests encompass the synthetic form of clay objects, laces, and other textile works such as crochet and embroidery,  as well as the geometric and colorful architectural features of traditional houses. Surrounding villages, household objects, and anonymous faces are elements of the landscape in which the artist is immersed, appearing as if clothed by a light mist that covers everything - alternately concealing or revealing them.

Paula Siebra (b. 1998, Fortaleza, Brazil) lives and works in Fortaleza.

Her recent solo exhibitions include As primeiras coisas [The earliest things], Mendes Wood DM, New York (2024); Cristalino SegredoMendes Wood DM, Brussels (2023); Noites de cetimMendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); Lembrança de algum lugarSobrado Dr. José Lourenço, Fortaleza (2022); O Soar das HorasNieuwe Gentweg 21, Bruges (2023) and Arrebol, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2021).

Additionally her work has been including in group exhibitions such as Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato en conversation avec Lucas Arruda, Sanam Khatibi, Patricia Leite, Paula Siebra, Marcos Siqueira, Erika Verzutti et Castiel Vitorino BrasileiroMendes Wood DM, Paris (2024); 74º Salão de AbrilCentro Cultural Casa do Barão de Camocim, Fortaleza (2023); Arte Laguna Prize ExhibitionArsenale di Venezia, Venice (2023); CloseGrimm Gallery, London (2023); A Gauzy FlameHerald St, London (2023); Pequenas pinturas IIauroras, São Paulo (2022); My reflection of youThe Perimeter, London (2022); Corpo Ancestral - 21ª UNIFOR Plástica, Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza (2022); Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022).

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    Jul 5, 2023
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Paula Siebra’s work in Brussels exhibition