Paula Parisot (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works between Buenos Aires and São Paulo.
A visual artist and writer, her work is fundamentally interdisciplinary, bringing together literature, painting, drawing, performance and video.
She has a degree in Industrial Design (PUC-RJ, Brazil) and a master’s degree in Fine Arts (The New School University, New York, USA).
Her solo exhibitions include Centro Cultural de Lagos (Algarve, Portugal, 2025), Casa de America (Madrid, Spain, 2024) Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, (Lisbon, Portugal, 2024), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Sur, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023), SESC (São Paulo, Brazil, 2019), Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014), FIL (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015). She was part of the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2020) and the BienalSur (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021).
Together with Jessica Sofia Mitrani, she created A Crucigramista (ARTE1, Brazil, Portugal and Mexico, 2017-2019), a program about art in Latin America. A Crucigramista took part in DOCLisboa (2018) and is currently broadcast on Mexican TV, presented by the Museo Universitario del Chopo.
Parisot is the author of A dama da solidão (Cia. das Letras, 2007, Cal y Arena, 2008 and Dalkey Archive Press 2010), which was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize; Gonzos e Parafusos (Leya, 2010,Cal y Arena, 2011), Partir (Tordesillas 2013, Cal y Arena, 2013) and Muyé Rengué (Editorial Guadal, El gato hojalata, 2024). Parisot has worked internationally to promote contemporary Brazilian literature, organizing anthologies such as La invención de la realidad (Cal y Arena, Mexico, 2015).
Paula Parisot's work, ranging from literature to performance, drawing and painting, reflects not only her multifaceted talent, but also her unique perspective as a woman in art.
Between literature, performance, drawing, video and painting, contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Parisot has been building a solid trajectory from her hometown, Rio de Janeiro, and her city of choice, Buenos Aires. With an eminently eclectic approach, mixing and experimenting with different media, techniques, shapes and colours, perhaps her beginnings in writing can still be highlighted by a special attention to the importance of narratives and the multiplicity of expressions in the world.
Original and creative, Paula Parisot found a new way to present her books, adding elements of performative art. In this way, it is at the forefront of opening up new possibilities for writers and artists in general. To find new forms of expression, he courageously crossed the boundaries between the art of writing and the art of performance.
The installation The young woman finally understood that there are no guarantees or free lunches subtly alludes to time. Feelings move between doing, undoing and redoing without end. Like Penelope, whose only reason, in dreams, is action. The sorrows and pleasures of the passage of time, of the life cycle of women, of maturity...Reality and dream, matter and spirit, conscious and unconscious. What was and what was not, and beyond, again in the dream, what could have been. Like long hair, each panel expresses different emotional states that, through the mandalas, are open to the viewer's interpretation. Colorful, intricate and always beautiful, they represent Parisot's aesthetic world.
Paula Parisot transforms literary experience into a kind of maze that unravels to produce visual works in different media. (...) We are faced with a work that leads to both literature and art, but it is not - in a fixed way or identifiable - just one thing or the other.
Our artist's material composes and crumbles, saturates and fades, rises but tends to the ground. It is precisely from this fissure, this existential contradiction, that Paula Parisot gives us clues about the world we inhabit.
If contemporary artistic production is marked by a radical and frequent interdisciplinarity, the work of the artist Paula Parisot is not only a firm proof of this, but also a case that challenges the many possibilities of intersections between different linguistic fields.
After all, as pointed out by Paula Parisot´s Partir, the gesture of reading still holds within it the awe of discovery. Beyond any doubt, Parisot is a writer who knows what road she is seeking.
Partir, by Paula Parisot, is a road novel that breaks all the canons of the genre and constitutes a sort of anti-Odyssey, as the Homeric poem´s many firsts include its being the fountainhead of road literature.
If Dama da Solidão and Gonzos e Parafusos - on which, by the way, Paula Parisot performed a notable performance in São Paulo that lasted seven days and six nights - heralded a talented writer, Partir consolidates her as one of our great storytellers.
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