GOKULA STOFFEL
b. 1988, BrazilGokula Stoffel investigates the multiple possibilities of painting through a continuous flow of images of different sorts: portraits, landscapes, cutouts, and abstract textures. A human presence is felt at times in outlined body parts, hair strands, textile weavings, and scribbles that take up significant portions of the compositions. Amidst the image and information saturation in which we live in, the artist proposes a pause, offering questions rather than answers. The irrefutable three- dimensionality of the work establishes a permanent tension between image and object.
Gokula Stoffel lives and works in São Paulo. Recent noteworthy solo presentations include Para-Sol, Pivô (São Paulo, 2018); Alvorada de Vênus, Auroras (São Paulo, 2018); and Madona Ansiosa, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel | Galpão (São Paulo, 2017). The artist has been included in several group shows such as: Nightfall, curated by Fernanda Brenner, Milovan Farronato and Erika Verzutti, at Mendes Wood DM (Brussels, 2018) and Abre Alas #12, curated by Adriana Varejão, Paula Borghi and André Sheik, at A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro, 2016). In 2021 she will be undertake residency at Gasworks, London.
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