Brazilian artist, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Marcela develops paintings that intertwine historical images from the universe of politics to representations of contemporary visual culture. Part of her pictorial inventions comes from a research on the struggles waged by women around the world, such as the work Sônia, which pays homage to a riverside communist guerrilla woman killed by military agents in the Araguaia region, during Brazil's first military coup in 1964.
Cantuária elaborates confrontations narratives for a society structured in sexism and misogyny, thus creating her own vocabulary, whose particularities are cohesive with the creative process, the chromatic palette and the articulations that emerge from the open and latent layers of her paintings. Influences spread in a curious combination, the works are reconnections with social facts that have been repeatedly diminished, erased or badly treated by history, so her body of work seeks to dialogue with questions about the position of women in society, class struggle, division of powers, gender stereotypes and disputes over political meanings.
Marcela Cantuária
1992, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Solo Exhibitions
2022
_ La invocación del pasado a la velocidad del ahora
Curated by Aldones Nino | CentroCentro
Madrid, Spain
2021
_ Esperança Equilibrista
Curated by Ademar Britto | Caixa de Pandora
São Paulo, Brazil
2020
_ Figurar o impossível
Curated by Joyce Delfim | Palácio das Artes
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2019
_ Sutur|ar Libert|ar
Curated by Joyce Delfim | Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ La larga noche de los 500 años
Curated by Aldones Nino | A Gentil Carioca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Castelos no Ar
Galeria AlfineteBrasilia, Brazil
2017
_ Lampejos
Galeria Macunaíma, EBA/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
_ Impulsos
Espaço Vórtice, EBA/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions
2022
_ Essa minha letra: Lima Barreto e os Modernismos Negros
Curated by Jaime Lauriano, Lilia Schwarcz and Pedro Meira | Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Espelho Labirinto
Curated by Vicente de Mello and Aldones Nino | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Brasília, Brazil
2021
_ Acervo em transformação
Curated by Tomás Toledo | Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
_ Imagens que não se conformam
Curated by Marcelo Campos and Paulo Knauss | Museu de Arte do Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Crônicas Cariocas
Curated by Marcelo Campos, Amanda Bonan, Luiz Antônio Simas and Conceição Evaristo | Museu de Arte do Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Bum-bum Paticumbum Prugurundum
A Gentil Carioca
São Paulo, Brazil
2019
_ Passeata
Curated by Isabel Portella | Galeria Simone Cadinelli
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Vivendo sob o fogo
Curated by Yago Toscano | Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Histórias feministas
Curated by Isabella Rjeille | Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
_ Estratégias do Feminino
Curated by Fabrícia Jordão, Daniela Thomas, Helena Severo and Rita Sepulveda | Farol Santander
Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018
_ Junho de 2013 – 5 anos depois
Curated by Daniele Machado and Gabriela Lúcio | Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ A/FRONT/A
Curated by Ana Elisa Lidizia and Jacqueline Melo | Espaço Piloto UnB
Brasília, Brazil
_ Agora é que são elas
Curated by Luisa Duarte and Pollyana Quintella | UNIBES cultural
São Paulo, Brazil
_ Crônicas urgentes
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
São Paulo, Brazil
_ Somos muitxs
Curated by Bernardo Mosqueira | Solar dos Abacaxis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
_ IV Bienal da Escola de Belas Artes
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
_Pintura contemporânea EBA
Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
_Que safra é essa
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
_ Imaginação e formaUFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education
2010 - 2017
_ Bacharelado em Pintura pela Escola de Belas Artes
EBA /UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Art Residency
2019
_ Kaaysa Art Residency
EBA /UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ PAOS GDL
Guadalajara, Mexico
2018
_ Solar dos Abacaxis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
_ Zona autônoma temporária – Ludus Naturale
Casa Pop-Up Kolor
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Collections
_ Acervo Museu da Maré
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
_ Acervo Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
_ Acervo Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil