REBECCA SHARP

Lives and works between the USA and Brazil.

In her poetic-spiritual process, she combines pictorial and meditative practices. Her work explores a variety of subtle and mundane planes, and currently, the encounter between them: unusual worlds covered by vivid- hued abysses that coexist vibrantly. The canvases function as coded messages, stemming from her internal and external perception. Her delicate and surreal compositions appear almost instinctively as soon as the initial theme is revealed. According to Rebecca, "What I perceive today is that the artist's work is to create and intervene in invisible universes. Long before the painting is finished, the creation and also the dissolution of a galaxy have already occurred. The work itself is the endpoint of a reverse engineering process, the visible resolution of an initial chaos. It is a logbook, a terrestrial document, an ignition key." Rebecca graduated in theater and dramatic arts from Goldsmiths, University of London.

In 2018, she took part in the 33rd edition of the São Paulo Biennial, Afinidades Afetivas, in the session curated by Sofia Borges. In 2019, he was in residence at the renowned California Institute of Arts and, in 2023, he took part in the Anderson Ranch artist residency program. Recent solo exhibitions include I am a place (Martins&Montero, Brussels, 2024); Terrestres (Sé, São Paulo, 2023); A Thinning Veil (Hexton Gallery, Colorado, 2023); Tools for the Wonderland (Mendes Woods, Brussels, 2021); Trago a mensagem do destino (Sé, São Paulo, 2020), curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto.

Text courtesy Martins&Montero.