Lot 106 - Marcia Porto - Three Moons

About 
Márcia Porto is a Brazilian artist living and working in Nottingham. She investigates the intricate relationship between the body and both natural and humanised spaces, emphasizing embodied experiences, corporeality, and spatial politics. The body and natural or humanised spaces also create codes of meaning for the sensitive and emotional experience of pain, whether physical or through processes of environmental dis-identification and exploration within a social and political context. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses murals, drawing, performance, painting, and installation. Through her work, she seeks to create spaces of contemplation where the intersections of gender, identity, environmental collapse, vulnerability, and movement unfold in quiet yet potent gestures. 

Education 
2006 – 2008 
MFA in Fine Art, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. 

1984 - 1987  
Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. 

1984 - 1987  
Bachelor in Art Education, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. 

Solo Exhibitions 
2022  
We never say too much if we don’t say enough, Nottingham Women’s Centre, Nottingham, UK.  

2018  
Nothing will be omitted from what can be said, Casa Goia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.  

2017  
Diaspora, curated by Josué Mattos, Sesc Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.  
How to ensure our forgetfulness, Academia Araçatubense de Letras, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.  
Ignoring the signs of the ground, distracted by the surface, Studio Imprevisto, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil.  

2015  
Space for exchanging experiences on territoriality behaviour, Fare Arte Artistic Residency, Bairro Demétria, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. 

Group Exhibitions 
2024  
Backlit Members Show, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK.  
International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK.  
Picture This: Hope, National Justice Museum Photography Exhibition, Nottingham, UK. 

2023  
The Book of Death Time, Performance, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK.  
Secret Postcard Show, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derby, UK. 

2022  
As aventuras de Alice. Animação Pré-Cinema. Farol Santander. São Paulo, Brazil.  
Standing In This Place Exhibition. Nottingham Society of Artists. Nottingham, UK.  

2020  
How to assure our forgetfulness? Work developed for the Independent Public Collection Ar: Acervo Rotativo, project by Laerte Ramos, Brazil.  

2019  
Feminist Stories - Ophelia, participation in the performance by Ana Mazzei and Regina Parra, MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil.  

2018  
Ignoring the signs on the ground. Mural project developed for Escola Entrópica - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.   

2017  
Algumas coisas que talvez amanhã ha desaparecido, curated by Josué Mattos, Ateliê Imprevisto, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil.   

2016  
A fixed idea that moves, curated by Célia Barros. Forum of Arts Gallery, Pinacoteca Forum of Arts, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.  
Collective Concept, Forum of Arts Gallery, MAC Itajahy Martins, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. 

Gallery Representation  
Backlit Gallery (Nottingham, UK)   

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork  
The artworks express my deep desire for a bond between human beings, nature, animals, and the cosmos. I enjoy reflecting on humanity's place within this context as a symbolic field that weaves connections in defiance of environmental exploitation and its resulting states of vulnerability. Three Moons and Portolan Chart are paintings created with layers of watercolour and gouache. Your Dance is Her Dance and Sharing are graphite drawings. In these works, I seek for a quiet symbiosis, where care emerges as a form of resistance.