Between literature, performance, drawing, video, and painting, Paula Parisot builds a trajectory marked by experimentation and a multiplicity of languages. Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Buenos Aires, her practice brings together visual and literary narratives with a singular attention to how stories are told—and by whom.
With a career that spans institutions such as the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, SESC São Paulo, and BienalSur, and with notable recognition in literature—being a finalist for the Jabuti Prize with The Lady of Solitude—Parisot now presents in Lisbon a new inflection of her research.
In the exhibition “Espejismos (Mirages)”, the artist brings together more than twenty works, many of them previously unseen, in a body of work that stretches the boundaries between painting and installation. Shades of blue and red run through the spaces of the National Society of Fine Arts, creating a field of contrasts that unfolds into circular forms, vessels, and dense patterns.
Her work invokes imagery connected to the body, blood, sensuality, power, and violence—proposing a direct dialogue with the history of Latin American feminist art. It is a body of work that not only represents but also inscribes a sensitive and political memory into space.
Curated by Victor Gordulho, this exhibition marks a moment of expansion and continuity in Parisot’s trajectory, reaffirming the strength of a practice that moves across languages to investigate the boundaries between intimacy and structure, narrative and matter.
“Espejismos (Mirages)” is on view at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon, with free admission.
Read the full article on the Umbigo Magazine website: Paula Parisot presents her first solo exhibition in Portugal
