Paula Almozarra

Born in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1968. Graduated in Fine Arts from State University of Campinas, Master of Arts (1997) and Doctor degree in Education (2005) by Unicamp. Professor of Visual Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas). Awarded in 2007 in the 62 ˚ Salão Paranaense of Contemporary Art, award in 39 ˚ Contemporary Art Exhibition of Piracicaba and honorable mention in 7 ˚ Salão de Artes Visuais in Guarulhos. Collective and individual exhibitions in Sao Paulo, Campinas, Curitiba, Ribeirão Preto, Salvador, Recife, Jataí, Belém, United States, Belgium, Spain, Germany. Selected in 2008 for the Exhibition Program in Centro Cultural São Paulo and for the Exhibition Program in Museum of Art of Ribeirao Preto. In 2009 participates in the Competition Presentation Vivo arte.mov – 4 ˚ International Festival of Art in Mobile Media. In 2011 participated in 8th International Bienal of Contemporary Engraving Competition in Liège, Belgium and the artistic residence in Canada, Atelier Presse Papier (Trois-Rivières, Québec).

Her project “paisagem-percurso” was select for the International Program of Artistic Residence in Cerveira Biennial Fundation in 2012 and one of the videos made in this residence was selected to Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM), Argentina. In 2013 your graphic work intitled “Fichier des images de pensée et mémoire” participated in 9th International Bienal of Contemporary Engraving Competition, Liège, Belgium. Has works in publics collections in Brazil, Portugal, Argentina and Spain. Since 2006 conducts research on media graphics, photography and video. 

In 2014 she received one of the biggest awards of her career, the Premio Brasil Fotografia with the work entitled “à margem”, in which she developed a project on the issue of technical reproducibility in photography, proposing an inversion of means and concepts about the multiple and the copy unique in the photographic process.

Graphic languages, ​​such as engraving and drawing and the means of capturing images, especially photography, have always played an important role in my career. Over time, the boundaries between these and other media have become increasingly blurred in my work and today I cannot affirm a preference over this or that medium, only working with profusion and the plurality that is necessary for a conceptual shift and procedural interdisciplinary.

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