Paula Parisot | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | December 28, 1978 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Visual Artist, Writer |
| Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro The New School |
| Genre | Novel, short stories |
| Notable works | A dama da solidão (The Lady of Solitude) |
| Notable awards | Jabuti Award, Finalist |
Paula Parisot (born 1978) is a Brazilian artist and writer.
Parisot was born in Rio de Janeiro and she studied Industrial Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro before moving to The New School in New York City, where she earned a Master's Degree in Fine Arts. [1]
Paula Parisot's first book, A dama da solidão (2007), was a finalist in the short fiction category for the Jabuti Award, Brazil's most prestigious literary award. Her second novel, Gonzos e parafusoswas (2010) inspired a performance that lasted for seven consecutive days in which Parisot confined herself to a room 3 meters by 4 meters, which was a reproduction of the sanatorium at the end of the novel. Parisot's third book, Partir (2013), includes original drawings by Parisot and led to a series of new performances in Guadalajara, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. In 2015, Parisot was featured in the Brazil imprint of Harper's Bazaar . [2] [3] [4]
The first translation of Parisot's work into English will be published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2016, under the title Lady of Solitude. [5] This is the book that took her to the finals of the Jabuti Award in 2007. [6]
Parisot is the co-creator and co-screenwriter, with Jessica Mitrani of the TV series A Crucigramista, channel ARTE1 - BRAZIL . With the title “America Invertida (America Inverted), the first session uses the language and the logic of crossword puzzles to draw a panorama of art and culture in Latin America.
Parisot has done a series of performances related to her literary work and was hailed by Marina Abramovic who said: "Original and inventive, Paula Parisot has found a new way to present her books by adding performative elements. In this way she is that the forefront of opening new possibilities for writers, and artists in general. To find different ways of expression, she boldly crossed the borders between writing and performance.”
Parisot has participated on Bienal do Mercosul (2020) e da BienalSur (2021).
Currently (2023) she lives between Buenos Aires and São Paulo with her family.
Lia Mascarenhas Menna Barreto is a Brazilian studio artist currently based in Rio Grande do Sul.
Alfons Hug is a curator, critic and exhibition organizer.
Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles was a Brazilian novelist and writer. Educated as a lawyer, she began publishing soon after she completed high school and simultaneously worked as a solicitor and writer throughout most of her career. She was a recipient of the Camões Prize, the highest literary award of the Portuguese language and her works have received honors and awards from Brazil, Chile and France. She was elected as the third woman in the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1985 and held Chair 16.
Brígida Baltar was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member.
Dona Paula was a princess of the Empire of Brazil and thus, a member of the Brazilian branch of the Portuguese House of Braganza. Her parents were Emperor Dom Pedro I, the first ruler of an independent Brazil, and Archduchess Leopoldina of Austria. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Paula was the couple's fifth child and third daughter child; she lost her mother at the age of three and her father at the age of eight, when he abdicated and left Brazil for Portugal, where he wanted to restore the throne of Paula's eldest sister, Maria da Glória, who should have become queen regnant of Portugal.
João Almino is a Brazilian novelist. He is the author of The Brasília Quintet, which consists of the novels Ideas on Where to Spend the End of the World, Samba-Enredo, The Five Seasons of Love ; The Book of Emotions and Cidade Livre. His 2015 novel Enigmas da Primavera was published in English in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press and won the Jabuti Award for Best Brazilian Book in translation. His seventh novel was published in November 2017 in Brazil: Entre facas, algodão. His most recent novel, Homem de Papel, was published in 2022. He has also authored books of philosophical and literary essays. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the University of Brasília (UnB), the Instituto Rio Branco, Berkeley, Stanford and The University of Chicago. In 2017, he was elected as one of the 40 members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Ruth Pinto de Souza was a Brazilian actress.
Lucas Simões is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo.
Iole Antunes de Freitas is a Brazilian sculptor, engraver, and installation artist who works in the field of contemporary art. Freitas began her career in the 1970s, participating in a group of artists in Milan, Italy linked to Body art. She used photography. In the 1980s, she returned to Brazil, but abandoned the human body as mediator of her work, adopting the "sculpture body". The artist uses materials such as wire, canvas, steel, copper, stone, and water to create her works.
Gilvan Samico was a Brazilian painter, teacher and engraver of the Armorial Movement of graphic design.
Sonia Gomes is a Brazilian contemporary artist who lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Gomes frequently employs found objects and textiles in her works, twisting, stretching, and bundling them to fashion wiry or knotty sculptural forms.
Maria Lynch Rio de Janeiro born 1981 is a Brazilian artist
Dudi Maia Rosa is a Brazilian artist.
Márcia Pinheiro de Oliveira was a Brazilian performer and visual artist. Her performances, videos and installations deal with themes of sexuality, eroticism, consumerism, childhood and religion, often using sex toys, children's toys and religious artifacts.
Waldemar Cordeiro was an Italian-born Brazilian art critic and artist. He worked as a computer artist in the early days of computer art and was a pioneer of the concrete art movement in Latin America.
Hermelindo Fiaminghi was a Brazilian painter, designer, graphic designer, lithographer, professor, and art critic, known for his geometric works and exploration of color.
Mary Lucy Murray Del Priore is a Brazilian historian and teacher. She wrote several books on the history of everyday Brazilian people during the colonial, imperial and Republican periods.
Wanda Pimentel was a Brazilian painter, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work is distinguished by "a precise, hard-edge quality encompassing geometric lines and smooth surfaces in pieces that often defy categorization as abstract or figurative. “My studio is in my bedroom,” Pimentel said in an interview. “Everything has to be very neat. .. I work alone. I think my issues are the issues of our time: the lack of perspective for people, their alienation. The saddest thing is for people to be dominated by things.”
Marcia Grostein Marcia Grostein is a Brazilian-American artist known for using various mediums across public art, sculpture, painting, video art, photography, and portable wearable art/jewelry. She was the first contemporary Brazilian artist to be acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 20th Century Collection by the curator Lowery Sims.