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🗓️ 13 April 2023
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Paula Siebra is a Brazilian painter born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1998. The artist focuses on images related to everyday life and scenes of intimacy using Brazilian northeastern culture as her starting point. Her paintings emerge from the exploration of established themes such as portraits, landscapes and still lifes. These motifs, throughout her research, acquire a peculiar aspect: a certain simplification in the contours, added to a reduction in the contrast between chromatic tones, polarizing reality and reverie – as if the artist were daydreaming about ordinary life.
In addition to following a straightforward continuum from tradition, her paintings relate to an inherent visualness of her native land of Ceará and the Brazilian Northeast as a whole. She is particularly close to with folk art, since her interests encompass the synthetic form of clay objects, laces and other textile works such as crochet and embroidery, as well as the geometric and colorful architectural features of traditional houses. Surrounding villages, household objects and anonymous faces are elements of the landscape in which the artist is immersed, appearing as if clothed by a light mist that covers everything - alternately concealing or revealing them.
Paula Siebra (1998, Fortaleza, Brazil) lives and works in Fortaleza, Brazil).
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| 1:42.0 | Today, Russell, I am feeling still. |
| 1:49.0 | Gosh. |
| 1:50.0 | And quiet. Gosh. |
| 1:52.0 | Which is really unusual to me, but today's guest work has made me feel very reflective and really kind of still like a still life. |
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| 2:08.0 | Like I keep seeing like a candle and I don't know like a ceramic. There's actually one here and it's really nice, isn't it? |
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| 2:33.0 | It's kind of like, you know, like on a sunny day, a bit like right now, because spring's happened and the sky was blue today and the sun was shining. |
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| 2:57.0 | And I have never actually been to the place where today's guest is is born and from which is four to let's her in Brazil. |
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