Marcela Cantuária

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

November, 2021

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, where she lives and works. Her works are appropriations of historical images from the universe of politics and representations of contemporary visual culture. Marcela’s pictorial inventions comes from her research on female protagonism in social fights and her works are reconnections with social factors erased or misstreated by history, so her body of work dialogues with questions about women positions in society, divisions of power, gender stereotypes and the disputes over political meanings. Movie frames, journalistic images, figurative miscellany of the unconscious, and everyday photographic records depicting naked women bodies, bleeding military, public square fire, burning landscapes, domestic animals and wild beasts on canvas in an intercross of anachronic plans. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the UFRJ School of Fine Arts. In 2019 opens, in the gallery A Gentil Carioca, the individual La larga noche de los 500 años, the same year she showed “Suturar Libertar” at Centro Municipal de Arte Helio Oiticica and took part in “Histórias feministas” at MASP and “Estratégias do Feminino” at the Farol Santander in Porto Alegre, also participated in the Kaaysa Residency in São Paulo and in the PAOS GDL, México. Her works are part of the collections of Museu da Maré in Rio de Janeiro and MASP in São Paulo.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: https://www.marcelacantuaria.com.br/

Instagram: @marcelacantuaria