Raphaela Melsohn
Bio: Recent exhibitions include Biblioteca Floresta (SESC Belenzinho, 2021), Bolhas siderais (Marli Matsumoto Gallery, 2021), A margem é mars large que o vão (Central Gallery, 2021), Eco Shifters (Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, 2019) and RECIPES FOR B_R_Z_L?, (Spring Break Art Show, 2019). Solo shows include wearing a trap (casamata, 2016), and investigations in VIDEO: register, displacement of view and WAYS OF THINKING (MIS, 2016). Recent residencies include Kaaysa (Boiçucanga, 2020), Pivô (São Paulo, 2019), AnnexB (Brooklyn, 2018) and Red Gate Residency, (Beijing, 2016).
www.raphaelamelsohn.com
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Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: I’m interested in constructing environments from and to our bodies, in opposition to conforming our bodies to an ergonometric standard space. I believe in constant fluxes, holes and organic shapes that intend to break the space as it is and break our bodies as we normalized them.
I work building things, learning and being affected by the materials. That way, the physicality and relation with others, how we can exist in space and how the space informs our existence is the core to work. Some notes on the notebook say: staying alive requires collaboration, contamination, unsettledunshaped- affected, how to inhabit, soft and wet, body and architecture, negative space— emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled.
we can move space until it becomes place - empty of all things it was full of (144" x 185" x 185", Cloth, yarn, adhesive, aluminum tubes, etching, 2022)
First Year Exhibition
Dry fountain: dead living environment (Dimensions variable, Foam, rubber, fiberglass, resin, wax, aluminum, light, video on screen, 2020)
