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Artist Statement

2014; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/cal.2014.0153

1080-6512

Rosana Paulino,

Urban Development and Societal Issues

Artist Statement Rosana Paulino (bio) Since the beginning of my career as a visual artist some themes have driven my productions. Among them the most constant has been the issue of visual representation of the blacks, especially of black women in Brazilian society. It interests me to think of the shadows slavery cast on this population by creating a social symbolic place for Afro-descendants. This site will be further consolidated by the construction of an imaginary place which will position black women between the domestic servant and the object of sexual pleasure. Thus, my works question the position occupied by African descendants in the Brazilian social fabric discussing elements such as social-symbolic passing of the wet nurse to nanny, the maid to the housemaid. Furthermore, topics such as beauty models that do not fit the bodily reality of black women, role models, or even the social and cultural invisibility to which we have historically been subjected are present in my work. There is a notoriously small proportion of black women in the visual arts in Brazil, and when this representation is discussed the content of the site occupied by this group in society, their contributions and claims, the situation becomes even more critical. We have, unfortunately, a true wilderness of ideas, a great void to be filled. I therefore hope that my production may contribute, among other things, to changing the panorama of inequality present in Brazilian contemporary art. [End Page 913] Click for larger view View full resolution Rosana Paulino, Proteção extrema contra a dor e o sofrimento 1 [Extreme Protection against Pain and Suffering 1] (2011) Graphite and watercolor on paper (16.7” x 12.7”) Click for larger view View full resolution Rosana Paulino, Proteção extrema contra a dor e o sofrimento [Extreme Protection against Pain and Suffering] (2011) Polymer clay, rope, wood, plastic, and metal (9” x 7.3” x 3.5”) [End Page 914] Click for larger view View full resolution Rosana Paulino, Mãe e filha: cegas [Mother and Daughter: Blind] (2003) Graphite and watercolor on paper (12” x 9.2”) [End Page 915] Click for larger view View full resolution Rosana Paulino, Ainda a lamentar [She Is Still Mourning] (2011) Polymer clay, rope, wood, plastic, and metal (9” x 3” x 19.2”) [End Page 916] Rosana Paulino ROSANA PAULINO, visual artist and educator, was born in 1976 in São Paulo, Brazil, where she studied printmaking and art at the University of São Paulo. She holds the PhD in visual art from Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo. She also studied printmaking at the London Print Studio in London, UK, on an APARTES/CAPES scholarship in 1998. From 2006-2008, she held a fellowship from Ford Foundation. For her work, she has also won such prizes as the Embratel Prize in Panorama da Arte Brasileira, the Visualidade Nascente Prize, and the Acquisition Prize at the First National Printmaking Biennial. She has exhibited her work in various group shows in Spain, UK, Puerto Rico, France, USA, Cape Verde, Mexico, Portugal, and Brazil. She has also had solo shows in different art venues in Ouro Preto and São Paulo, Brazil. She lives and works in São Paulo. Copyright © 2014 The Johns Hopkins University Press