Archipelago: Paula Siebra, Artist in Residence

  • This past summer, Paula Siebra was in-residence at Archipelago in Germantown, New York. The artist’s contact with the region’s nature,...

    This past summer, Paula Siebra was in-residence at Archipelago in Germantown, New York. The artist’s contact with the region’s nature, history, and local community resulted in a series of drawings and paintings exhibited in an open studio in the space. The exhibition provided an intimate setting where visitors could engage directly with the works and be immersed in her studio practice.
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    A glimpse into Paula Siebra's residency at Archipelago, an 18th Century house located at 10 Church Ave in Germantwon, New York.
  • Works on paper by Paula Siebra feature studies of wild flowers found in the gardens of Archipelago and the surround areas.
  • Identifying the most primordial things in image and life, Siebra draws a cartography of returns: painting the places she has...
    Identifying the most primordial things in image and life, Siebra draws a cartography of returns: painting the places she has visited, whether through circumstance or memory, and anchors herself while facing the unceremonious accumulation of life’s abrupt movements. The freshly laundered clothes that return to the bed, the pens that neatly revisit the shirt pocket, the imprisoned feelings that are sealed in an envelope and freed into the world. Although allegorically presented in isolated scenes, the paintings engender an interconnected macrocosm through affective and semiological mechanisms. Similarly, while the works bear the inescapable personal perception of the artist, they are reflected in the desired postulation of a collective representational will, where the universal and the particular amalgamate. 
     
    – Mateus Nunes, Ph.D
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  • Paula Siebra (b. 1998, Fortaleza, Brazil) lives and works in Fortaleza. 

     

    Her recent solo exhibitions include As primeiras coisas, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2024), Cristalino Segredo, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2023);Noites de cetim, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); Lembrança de algum lugar, Sobrado Dr. José Lourenço, Fortaleza (2022); O Soar das Horas, Nieuwe 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 Brasileiro, Mendes Wood DM, Paris (2024); 74º Salão de Abril, Centro Cultural Casa do Barão de Camocim, Fortaleza (2023); Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice (2023); Close, Grimm Gallery, London (2023); A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, London (2023); Pequenas pinturas II, auroras, São Paulo (2022); My reflection of you, The Perimeter, London (2022); Corpo Ancestral - 21ª UNIFOR Plástica, Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza (2022); Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022). 

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