Julia Pereira

1991, São Paulo. Lives and works in São Paulo.

The force to paint comes from the desire for the matter-ink, the root of the painting is the autobiographical memory. The process occurs through a strong connection between the memory of something experienced, covenanted with bodily and psychic reactions on that, because the image already lives inside the artist. It is during this time of elaboration that she tries to translate the sensation of the memory that goes through her and comes out. However, while trying, she notices the gap between the palette and the canvas and her inability to capture something that always escapes, makes her return to her work. The emptying of this energy arrives accompanied by the finished work. In this way, the experience of the past unites with the action of the present to remain eternalized through frenetic brushstrokes and strong colours, in compositions that border on abstraction. The result dialogues with questions of the body, its pulsions, desires, exorcisms and the impermanence of time.

Graduated with a B.A. in Visual Arts: Painting, Engraving and Sculpture from Centro Universitário Belas Artes São Paulo (2018), awarded Best Student with full scholarship for post-graduation. Did postgraduate studies in Art History - Theory and Criticism (2020) course on Neuroscience and Art (2021) at the same university; Art & Psychoanalysis with Bianca Dias (2020 Instituto Adelina). Her first solo exhibition is O ar que eu não seguro (Ateliê Alê, São Paulo, 2022). Participated in group exhibitions: Acervo Rotativo (Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, 2021), Paralelas (Babel Gallery, São Paulo, 2021), 16th Guarulhos Art Show (2020), 26th Praia Grande Art Show (2019), 30th Youth Art Show (Sesc Ribeirão Preto, 2019), Paralela Eixo 2019 (Reserva Gallery, Niterói 2019), Mulher É + (Subsolo Laboratório de Arte, Campinas 2019), Tardes de Terça (Mackenzie Historical and Cultural Center, São Paulo 2019), EIXO Collective 2019 (Reserva Gallery, Niterói), 3rd Belas Artes Show (Gallery 13, São Paulo 2017), Espaço do Olhar (Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo 2016 and 2017), Belas Artes Show (Gallery 13, São Paulo 2015) and O que vem de dentro (Shared Creation Center, São Paulo 2015). She participated in a painting course with Paulo Pasta at Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2016-17), portfolio reading with Marcelo Amorim at Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and group painting mentoring with Rodrigo Bivar (2018).

Por: Arte FASAM Galeria