Celina Portella presents an installation of images at CCF-SP

Photoperformances, video installations and photo-objects make up the exhibition Corpo da obra, which the Rio de Janeiro artist Celina Portella premiered this Tuesday (24), for guests, at Centro Cultural Fiesp (CCF), in São Paulo. The exhibition, curated by Ângela Berlinde, will open to the general public on Wednesday (25) and will remain open until October 30, with free admission. Visits will take place from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10am to 8pm.

The show brings together Celina's work developed over the last decade. Present will be works from the series Folds, Cuts, Hollows, Pulls, Cut Frames, Squared Movement, Photo-paintings and Fire. The installation dialogues with the architecture of the space and the two-dimensionality of the paper, using the corners, the floor and the ceiling of the exhibition space.

The artist's work is marked by the hybridism of languages and by the insertion of her own body. The exhibited collection leads the viewer inside and outside her work, transgressing the boundaries of frames with cuts, folds, burns, paintings and dialogue with the body.

"By using multiple possibilities of contemporary photography, placing her body right in the centre of the work, the artist attracts attention with the ludic capacity of her pieces, awakening consciences, communicating with her audience through the shock or visual confrontation that her performances provoke," explains curator Ângela Berlinde. The exhibition, with about 40 works, is an invitation by the artist to reflect on the relationship between subject and object in art.

About Celina Portella [Rio de Janeiro, 1977]: the artist studied Design at PUC-Rio and graduated in fine arts at the Université Paris VIII. She was awarded the Luxembourg Art Prize 2021, the Salon ACME, Mexico City, 2020, the XX Bienal Internacional de Artes Visuales de Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2016, and the II Fundaj Video Art Competition, Recife, 2008. She has participated in artistic residencies at Casa Wabi, in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, at Bag Factory Artists' Studios, in Johannesburg, South Africa; at the Centre International d'Accueil et d'Échanges des Récollets, in Paris, France; at LABMIS, in São Paulo, among others. She has been awarded several creative scholarships and developed projects in various institutions and galleries in Brazil and abroad.