About the Artist

My artistic research and work engage extensively with collective memory and its erasure in society.

The works are often based on the interpretation of specific events in relation to the city, architecture and historical representation in relation to the present, searching for new meanings to forgotten aspects of a conflictive lexicon in whose internal movement the writing of history is disputed.

My interest is to create installations and multimedia works that emerge from a deep research into cultural dynamics, that takes Brazilian architecture and its practitioners as central figures of my research.

Important architectonic icons like Casa França Brasil, The Gustavo Capanema Palace also known architecturally as the Ministry of Education and Health Building or the figures as Athos Bulcão, Lina Bo Bardi, and Lota de Macedo Soares or Carmen Miranda are many times the starting point to develop my research.

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Mi investigación artística y obra están involucrados extensivamente  con la memoria colectiva y su borramiento en la sociedad.

Las obras a menudo están basadas en la interpretación de eventos específicos en relación a la ciudad, la arquitectura y la representación histórica en relación al presente, buscando nuevos significados para los aspectos olvidados de un léxico conflictivo, en cuyo movimiento interno la escritura de la historia está en disputa.

Mi interés es el de crear instalaciones y obras multimedia que surgen de una investigación profunda sobre las dinámicas culturales, que toman a la arquitectura brasileña y sus practicantes como figuras centrales de mi investigación.

Importantes  iconos arquitectónicos como  Casa França Brazil, El Gustavo Capanema Palace también conocido arquitectónicamente como el  edificio del Ministerio de Educación y Salud; o las figuras como Athos Bulcão, Lina Bo Bardi, y Lota de Macedo Soares, or Carmen Miranda, son muchas veces los puntos de partida  para desarrollar mi investigación.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

• 1999-2001: Master degree, Konstfack , Stockholm, Sweden.

Prizes / Fellowships

• 2011: Residence Botkyrka, project in collaboration with Birger Lipinski, Residence Botkyrka, Stockholm , Sweden.
• 2011: Konstnärsnämnden, 2 years Grant, Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2008: IASPIS, Residency Program, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2007: Batiscafo Residency Program, Batiscafo Residency Program, Havana, Cuba.
• 2005: Konstnärsnämnden, 1 year Grant, Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2004-2005: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Residency Program, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
• 2002: I mostra Rioarte Contemporânea , Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2002: II Prêmio Sergio Motta, Instituto Sergio Motta, São Paulo, Brazil.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2016: “Past Projects for the Future”, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA.
• 2016: “Restauro / Restoration”, Ana Mas Projects,  Barcelona, Spain.
• 2015: “O que acaba todos os dias”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2014: “Fachada/ Façade”, Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2013: “Contos sem Reis – Tales with no Kings”, Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• “Lembrança de Brasilia / Memory from Brasilia”,  Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2005: “Listen to me”, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany.

Group Exhibitions

• 2016: “Depois do Futuro“, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2015: “The Devil is in the details“, Ka.Be Contemporary, Miami, USA.
• 2015: “Tarsila e Mulheres Modernas no Rio“,  Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2014: “Do Valongo à Favela“, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2014: “Idea di Frattura – Opinione Latina / 2“, Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
• 2014: “Josephine Baker and Le Corbusier in Rio – a Transatlantic Affair“, Museu de Arte do Rio,  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2014: “Dispositivos para um mundo (im)possível“, Galeria Nara Roesler – Roesler Hotel #25, , São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2014: “Brasil:Arte/Música / Brazil:Art/Music“, Zacheta Project Room,  Warsaw, Poland.
• 2013: “Amor e ódio à Lygia Clark / Love and hate to Lygia Clark”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art,  Warsaw, Poland.
• 2013: “Prêmio Pipa – Finalist“, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2013: “Visão do Paraíso: Pensamento Selvagem“, ARTRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2013: “The right to the city“, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland.
• 2013: “The Insides are on the Outside”, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2013: “MAC 50: Doações Recentes 1“,  Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2012: “Esquemas para una Oda Tropical – An exhibition /a poem /a library / a landscape“, Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2012: “Novas Aquisições 2010 – 2012 – Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand,  Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2011: “Bananas is my Business: The South American way“, Museu Carmen Miranda,  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2010: “Um so Mehr“, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany.
• 2006: “Geração da Virada“, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.

Publications

• Laercio Redondo, Intimacies – Proximidades (Berlin: The Green Box), 120.
• Laercio Redondo, I need You (Göppingen: Kunsthalle Göppingen), 60.
  
• Tobi Maier, “O que acaba todos os dias / What Ends Every Day”, Artforum, New York, USA, April 2016, 257.
• Paula Alzugaray, “Feminismo em campo expandido“, Select Magazine, Brazil, 05/02/2016.
• Luisa Duarte, “Lendo os sons do silêncio“,  Jornal O Globo, Brazil, 04.JAN.2016.
• Kaira M. Cabañas, “Laercio Redondo – Casa França Brasil“, Artforum, New York, USA, Summer 2013, 381.
• Paula Alzugaray, “Visão oblíqua do Rio“, Revista Istoé Independente, Edição 2263, 28.03.13.
• Fernanda Lopes, “Uma história que não anda em linha reta”, Select  Magazine, Brazil, 24/04/2013.

Collections

• Andrea & José Olympio Pereira Collection, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Gilberto Chateaubriant Collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Itaú Cultural Collection, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany.
• Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Artists

Artist: Elena Damiani 

Impact Structures
August 18, 2016 – September 24, 2016
Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden

Working with collage, sculpture, video and installations Peruvian artist Elena Damiani employs the disciplines of geology, geography, cartography, archaeology and astronomy to reinterpret such categorisations and the way we understand the world around us. Her fictional and constructed landscapes propose alternative readings of geological time, history and humankind’s classifications of evidence. For her first exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake Damiani uses sources such as NASA, the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey repository to present a framework of quasi-evidence on celestial bodies like meteorites and comets and their landfalls. The works in the exhibition comprise documentation of traces of surface impacts, celestial transits, and cosmic debris left by impact events. Scientific evidence merges with fiction revealing how technology informs our representations of nature, and examining what we actually know about the natural world and how that knowledge is produced.

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