Francisca Carvalho (Coimbra, 1981) completed the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Ar.Co in Lisbon in 2005, graduated in Philosophy from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa FCSH in 2009, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2016. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Fulbright Scholar/Fundação Carmona e Costa fellow at the Mount Royal School of Art. Her work revolves around the manipulation of symbols, expressed through collages, drawings, and textiles. Notable solo exhibitions in her artistic career include "Chordata" at Culturgest, Porto (2016), "Hasta" at the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi, India (2018), "Tiger Mountain" at A Maior, Viseu (2018), "Loom" at ArtWorks, Póvoa de Varzim (2019), "Às nonas, Midas nos dedos medram e mondam" at the Galeria Municipal de Almada (2021), and "Cosmic Tones" at CIAJG, Guimarães (2021). She participated in the exhibition of the five finalists for the "Art on Paper Navigator Prize" at Chiado 8, Lisbon (2018). In 2018, she received grants from the Fundação Oriente and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, conducting practical research in India on patterns, natural dyes, kalamkari, and hand block printing in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India. Her notable participations in group exhibitions include "Plano de Contingência" at the Cristina Guerra gallery, Lisbon (2023), "Ninguém. Só eu" at the Centro de Arte Oliva (2022), "Farsa" at Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil, "Isolation, Oscillation" at Outono Projects, New York (2021), "Triângulo" at Brotéria, Lisbon (2021), "Orto di Incendio" at the Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica di Roma (2019), "Gabinete de Moda" at Gabinete, Lisbon (2017), and "Small Victories" at School 33, Baltimore (2016). Additionally, she co-founded and coordinated Atelier Concorde in Lisbon (2010-2014) and served as a Drawing and Painting teacher at Ar.Co (2008-2021) and as a Visiting Artist in the Mount Royal School of Art Master's program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2020-2021).
Henri Michaux states, "to create a being, one must create a situation." In the current exhibition, I present a small group of glass paintings of varying dimensions. The scale, temperature, and consistency of the material - glass - dictate the visual rhythm among the paintings. In each piece, this rhythm arises from the persistent composition of certain geometric forms, reminiscent of those found in Indian Tantra drawings and posters by El Lissitzky.
Credits
resources: glass, iron, weldingformato: residency cycle 01fotografia: Bruno Lança
