Landscape-fiction

Landscape-Fiction
Paula Almozara
Photography - Printmaking
Salgadeiras Gallery
6/20/2015 - 8/22/2015
 
Paula Almozara, Brazilian artist, born in Campinas, in 1968, will present the exhibition «Landscape-fiction» at Galeria das Salgadeiras in June 2015. She has developed her artistic work in the field of Engraving and its technical variants, Photography, assuming no rarely the character of installation to accentuate the experience in the viewer. He has exhibited since 1997, mainly in Brazilian galleries and museums, representing several collections in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Argentina. She is also a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Visual Arts at PUC - Campinas. He recently won the Brazil Photography Award 2014, in the Project Development category with “research based on the rupture of the notions of technical reproducibility, starting from experiments with analog photography”.
His relationship with Portugal is not new. In 2012, she participated in an artistic residency for the Cerveira Biennial, and twice was a guest artist by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, often visiting our country.
However, in this, which is her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Paula Almozara will present a series of small objects (25x25x3cm) that, in the artist's own words, aim to “question and provoke the existing limits on the notion technical reproducibility in relation to the matrix / multiple and the single object, carrying out experiments based on analog photography ”. «Landscape-fiction» addresses the artistic genre of Landscape, but in a fictional perspective in the sense that elements that re-invent and re-interpret the existing and “real” landscape are inserted and merged. A fragmented landscape, through less classic processes in the engraving technique and that assimilate photographic images that, together with the matrix, stimulate imagination and memory.