Emelina Soares (born 1993) [1] is an Indian artist, art historian, and educator who uses site-specific installation, animation, projection, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Common themes of her works include ecology, ethology, migration, and cultural exchanges. [2]
Emelina Soares | |
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| Born | Doha, Qatar |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Emily Carr University of Art and Design, MFA University College of London, MA Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA |
She completed her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, in addition with an MA from the University College of London Qatar under Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. [3]
Soares used oriental references as inspiration, combined with prominent saints from India, the Middle East and Portugal to create contemporary appropriations in the series of recontextualizing saints. Her practice explored patterns of carpets in combination with sand from the dunes of Qatar, and natural dyes from India, [4] to create ephemeral Sand Carpets. The changing patterns of the carpets due to guests walking on the piece reflects her multinational identity. [5]
Her practice consists of site-specific installations such as Hidden in Plain Site, that discuss the adaptive attitude of migrating and invasive bodies within changing perspectives of space and place. [2]
Soares participated as an artist and facilitator for the Leaning Out of Windows project led by Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig, where she collaborated with a physicist from TRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator centre, and faculty from Emily Carr University, to create an interdisciplinary project on the study of dark matter. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Soares was part of several group exhibition such as Shifting Identities, [10] Introspection / Extrospection, [11] Tracing Erasure [12] in Vancouver, Canada. Qatar Contemporary Art and Photography in Russia, [13] Ruwad: Pioneering artists of Qatar [14] in Washington DC. Art Leaders Network and Contemporary Art Qatar [15] in Germany. Built/ Unbuilt Home/ City at the Kathmandu Triennale 2017. [16] AlBahie Auction House, Qatar Foundation: Emerging Artists, Art and Medicine VCU Qatar, [17] Fire Station Artists-in-residence show, [18] Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, Katara Art Centre, and Qatar Museums: Create and Inspire (Qatar Brazil). [19]
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