Carolina Paz
carolinapaz.com
Statement I like to think that my work is a continuous relation of affections. Objects, everyday actions, people, intimacy, even time. The world is infinite of possible subjects and each thing essentially carries its infinity. I do not need to go far to find what can be the next movement in my practice. I find motives everywhere, in life such as it is. I can start a sculpture with my pillow‌ If a tea-cup crashes it can be investigated. How does it sound? What can I do with these smithereens? I can do something with it through painting, video or any media that I find adequate, even as a teacher in the classroom. Often, I see my work as a piece between delicacy and intensity, silence and colorful stimulation. Maybe, through my work, I want to be closer and closer to people and things around. Each piece that I produce or occasion that I propose is a unique experience that I dedicate myself and that I try to live as deeply as possible. This is the sense that I seek to share with each person who meets my work. May those pieces and events be singular experiences for other people. Let’s look for joy!
Fica, vai ter bolo!(Stay, there’ll be cake!) 2017 - 2018
Oil paintings and collaboration project
Bicho de pĂŠ
2018
oil and pompons on canvas, 20 x 24 cm
Bolo de neve
2018
oil and pompons on canvas, 40 x 52 cm
Alho
2017
oil on fabric and pompons on canvas, 15 x 27 cm
Margueritta
2017
oil and borlas on canvas, 37 x 24 cm
Prova de redação
2018
oil, wax and fringe on canvas, 30 x 20 cm
Par de rosquinhas
diptych
2018
oil and pompons on canvas, 14 x 28 cm
Morandinho
2018
oil and fringe on canvas, 17 x 15 cm
Sonho de valsa
2017
oil and pompons on fabric on canvas, 52 x 42 cm
Quindim
2018
oil on fabric and pompons on canvas, 10 x 16 cm
Clementines
2017
oil and fringe on canvas, 34 x 20 cm
About the project Fica, vai ter bolo! (Stay, there will be cake!) By Luciana Solano
Virgilio Gallery presents the exhibition “Fica, vai ter bolo!“ by artist Carolina Paz. The name derives from an expression that translates into “Stay, there will be cake!”. The expression is used, in Brazil, when a guest states he is to leave the party and the host tries to make him stay further, “until cake is served”. The exhibition shows Paz’s paintings from the last two years, as well as a collaborative artwork she proposed to twenty other people. Each collaborator’s personal reason for being part of this project include, willing to feel part of the artist’s proposition, dealing with unrealised wishes through the act of painting, or just being part of a social group. Each collaborator experienced feelings of gratitude, nostalgia, self knowledge, being able to freeze the past, and revive family moments, and being able to reformulate sad or incomplete remembrances.
Collaboration content avaiable at: http://carolinapaz.com/ficavaiterbolo
How to taste as an American? 2018
Collaborative Project
About the project by Krista Saunders Scenna
“How to Taste as an American?” is a Carolina Paz effort to translate her distinct Brazilian taste and sensibility to her new environment (she has been living in the U.S. for less than a year). The video installation, “Homemade” immerses the viewer into the sights and sounds of Paz recreating traditional Brazilian and American recipes with products + measurements made in the USA. During the exhibition, we asked interested visitors to leave a written “tip” for the artist answering the question “How do taste as an American?” in exchange for a free poster print from the “Homemade” video.
Installation view at Spring Break Art Show, New York, US, 2018.
Homemade
2018
Part of the installation “How to taste as an American?”, exhibited at 2018 Spring Break Art Show, NYC, 09’42”.
Meu Canto 2017
Collaborative Project
About the project 1st edition – October 2017 RU Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street #4 Brooklyn, NY 11231
“Meu canto” in Portuguese means my sing and also my place, my own place or the place where I feel I belong. Taking my own experience as a recent expat, feeling divided between belonging to São Paulo and looking for my place in New York, this project becomes a space for all those who are attracted to the idea of projecting their voices about their places. Where do you belong? What sensations are involved? Do you have a place to call your own? Is it a room in your home or a complex metropolis? Is your own skin your place? Another person? Is a state of mind your place? A language, a smell, a taste? How to translate this by projecting your voice? Is there a song, a poem, or any text that translates this feeling? Through an online platform, I have opened an audio playlist with voices that sing, recite, declare how each participating individual stands on these issues. This playlist is a work in progress without a deadline to be completed. I look for an infinite accumulation of voices, without instruments, without effects, without editing but only voices and the background noises from where they are recorded.
Meu Canto
2017
Collaborative sound-art project where audiences to sing their own conceptions of home – whether through literally singing a song reminiscent of home, or reciting mundane activities like grocery shopping lists or daily routines.
Desejo Motivo 2017
Collaborative Project
About the project Carolina Paz – The desires and the motives of the other by Divino Sobral
In search of reasons to expand her research in painting, Carolina Paz put on the internet and on the facade of her former studio the following call: “Send a letter with your request, desire, subject, motive for creating an image based on your history”. Thus, the artist triggered a process of collecting stories and requests addressed to her, which resulted in a collection of letters on which she worked to create a series of works. She signed with several people an informal contract of exchange, which has agreed the exchange of a story for a painting, and established an area of relationships and intersections that, in a way, allowed the viewer to have a certain degree of participation in the genesis of painting. Digital book avaiable at: https://issuu.com/carolinapaz01/docs/desejomotivo_carolinapaz_2017_final
Desejo motivo 1a edição ( Desire, motive 1st edition) 44 histories, 44 oil paintings, 44 participants, one occasion, variable dimensions, variable connections.
2018
Food Porn Series 2017 - 2018
Oil paintings, 10 x 10 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Sem tĂtulo (Untitled)
2017
oil on canvas, 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Selected works From 2009 - 2015
Little things
2014 - 2015
oil on tins, variable dimensions
Record of installation held at Galeria VirgĂlio, SĂŁo Paulo, 2015
Xadrez
diptych
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Life on Mars
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 50 x 37 cm
A realidade
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 37 x 50 cm
Glorinha
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 37 x 50 cm
Sandro
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm
Clara luz
diptych
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 30 x 37.5 cm
No aguardo dela
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Patanjali
from “Set theory”
2015
oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Abraรงo (Hug) 2013 - 2014 one hundred pillows, pressed by the weight of the body of the artist, rope, curtain tiebacks, 48 x 65 x 306 cm Record of the work installed held at Sala Nordeste - Funarte, Recife
Saturação (Saturation)
2013
Video, 5’30”, 16:9/1080p, NTSC, an edition of three copies.
Dois (Two) 2013
from “sem. Os dois (without. The two)”
cups and saucer balanced by golden wire attached to the roof and coffee, variable dimensions
Amargo (Bitter)
2013
from “sem. Os dois (without. The two)”
Video, 09’40”
Todo o tempo (All the time) 2013
from “sem. Os dois (without. The two)�
set of coffee residues on watercolor paper cards, 16 x 12 cm each card, variable dimensions
Átimo (Trice) 2012
from “sem. Os dois (without. The two)”
oil on canvas, glass, wood box and antique frame, 50 x 30 x 4.5 cm
Volta (Turn) 2012
from “sem. Os dois (without. The two)”
oil on canvas, glass, wood box and antique frame, 16.5 x 12 x 10 cm
Silêncio (Silence) 2012
from “Íntima Ação”
oil on canvas, glass, wood box and antique frame, 15 x 13.5 x 3.7 cm
Revelação (Revelation)
from “Íntima Ação”
2011
oil on canvas, glass and antique frame, 16 x 3 cm
Confinadas from “Íntima Ação”
(ConVideo, 22’00”
2011
série Relíquia (Relic Series)
from “Íntima Ação”
2011
graphite on newsprint paper, 42 x 29.7 cm each
série Relíquia (Relic Series)
from “Íntima Ação”
2011
graphite on newsprint paper, 42 x 29.7 cm each
Venusiana (Venusian) 2011
from “A feia que sabe que não é tão feia (The ugly girl who knows she’s not that ugly)”
oil on canvas, glass and antique frame, 32 x 27 cm
Odalisca (Odalisque) 2011
from “A feia que sabe que não é tão feia (The ugly girl who knows she’s not that ugly)”
oil on canvas, glass and antique frame, 31 x 26 x 5.5 cm
Fim (The End)
2011
Video, 3’55”
Sem título (Untitled)
2011
Video, 72’43”
Antoine
from “Les Garçons”
2009
oil on canvas, 157 x 173 cm
Guillaume
from “Les Garçons”
2009
oil on canvas, 157 x 173 cm
Louis
from “Les Garçons”
2009
oil on paper, 25.3 x 35.7 cm
Marc
from “Les Garçons”
2009
oil on paper, 25.3 x 35.7 cm
Carolina Paz
Bio
b. 1976
São Paulo, Brazil
I am an artist and social scientist. Since 2008, I have been presenting my artworks in individual and collective exhibitions, special projects, and art residency programs in Brazil, the United States, and Europe. I was co-founder and director of “Coletivo 2e1”, an artist-run space and online network originally based in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2013, I was the winner of Funarte Award in Recife, Brazil. I have been working in education since 2000 as a professor and distance education specialist. In the United States, I recently founded the “Uncool Artist” multimedia platform for visual artists education. My work vision is based on participatory practices.
Education 2010 2000 - 2003 1994 - 1999
BA in Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK MA in Mídia e Conhecimento (Knowledge and Media), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil. BA in Social Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil.
2010 to the present
Creation and offering of mentoring programs and study groups for visual artists, online and in person at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil. Advisory and development of programs in Distance Education for private companies and educational institutions in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. Sociology and Communication Theory professor at Instituto de Ensino Superior da Grande Florianópolis (IES) and Faculdades ASSESC/Estácio de Sá, Florianópolis, SC. Special CAPES scholarship in the Distance Learning Laboratory (LED), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC.
Educational Practice
2005 - 2008 2003 - 2005 2000 - 2003
Critical texts and Curatorial projects 2018 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013
Solo exhibition Biofilia, Maria do Carmo Verdi at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil. Critical text Amor pela vida (Love for life). Solo exhibition H2O está mais quente embaixo (H2O is hot underneath), Susanne Schumacher Schirato at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil. Critical text Quem tem medo do escuro? (Who’s fear of the darkness?). Collective exhibition O Lugar do Outro lugar (The Place of Another Place) at Elefante Cultural Center, Brasília, DF, Brazil. Critical text available at: http://doiseum.com/2017/10/23/-lugar-do-out-the-site-no-elephant-centro-cultural-in-brasilia/ Group exhibition O Lugar do Outro lugar (The Place of Another Place) at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil. Text presenting the project available at: http://doiseum.com/2016/10/27/project-coletivo-o-lugar-do-outro-lugar/ International exchange mentoring and group exhibition Aos cuidados de (Care of) São Paulo / Paris at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil and Glassbox, Paris, France. Project presentation text available at: http://doiseum.com/aos-cuidados-de-paris2014/ International exchange mentoring and group exhibition Aos cuidados de (Care of) São Paulo / Kassel at Coletivo 2e1, São Paulo, Brazil and Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany. Text of presentation of the project available at: http://doiseum.com/aos-cuidados-deparis-2014/
Solo exihibitions and special projects 2018 2018 2017 2017 2015 2014 2013 2013 2012
Fica, vai ter bolo! Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. How to taste as an American? Spring Break Art Show, New York, US. Meu Canto – Residency Unlimited (RU), New York, US. Desejo Motivo – Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil. Teoria dos Conjuntos – Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. Porção – Funarte, Recife, Brazil. sem. Os dois – Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. Pontuais – Art Museum of Goiânia (MAG), Goiânia, Brazil. Íntima Ação – Zipper Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group exihibitions 2018 2018 2017 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2011
Entre Acervos – Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Entre Acervos – Centro Cultural Hector Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A part of it – Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY, US C o r – José Marton Collection, São Paulo, Brazil. *Prometheus fecit* terra, água, mão e fogo* – Nova
t Ogiva
Gallery,
e Óbidos,
Portugal
Imagem crítica, Virgilio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil Layers of Response – NARS Foundation, New York, US. *Prometheus fecit* terra, água, mão e fogo* – Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto City, Portugal. Artists in residence | NARS Foundation – Consulate General of Brazil in New York, US. 13th SNAI – National Art Salon of Itajaí, Brazil. 17th Biennial of Cerveira – special project “um r e t r a t o quase apagado”, Cerveira, Portugal. Arte Agora 2 – Lourdina Jean Rabieh Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. 11th Biennial of Recôncavo – São Félix da Bahia, Brazil. O que te escolhe, te move e alcança o mundo – Espaço Ápis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Independência ou Morte – special project at Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil. Between Commissioners and Curators – artists and books, Laboratório de Curadoria/Fábrica Asa, Guimarães, Portugal. 10th Exhibition Program of Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Group exihibitions 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2008 2008
39th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Santo André, Brazil. Vídeos Desvenda, Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Arsenal, Baró Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. 38th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, Santo André, Brazil 10+20 Show, Emma Thomas Olheiro da Arte, CCJE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CUBE, Central Saint Martins, London, UK. CUT & PASTE, Emma Thomas Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil. SUBLIME, Emma Thomas Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
Gallery,
São
Paulo,
Brazil.
Awards / Residencies 2017 2014 2014 2014 2013 2012 2012
Residency Unlimited (RU) New York. NARS Foundation Art Residency Program, New York. Le Couvent, Auzits, France Ceramic Factory S. Bernardo, Alcobaça,Portugal. 1st place – Funarte Award for Contemporary Art, Northeast Visual Arts Hall Recife, Brazil. Digital book avaible at: https://issuu.com/carolinapaz01/docs/cat__logo_por____o_premio_funarte?e=4297936/10132645 XI Biennial of the Recôncavo, São Félix, BA – special mention. 3rd Paraty Prize for Contemporary Art, artistic residence in Paraty, Brazil.
Public collections Fundacíon Luis Seoane, La Corunha, Espanha. Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (MARGS) Porto Alegre, Brazil. Goiânia Museum of Art, Goiânia, Brazil