Isabelle Ferreira
Isabelle Ferreira
Born in 1972
Paris
“In her work, Isabelle Ferreira draws on a wide range of processes and references. deliberately against the grain. As a sculptor, she likes to use size as a means of producing her own work. as a draughtswoman and colorist, she strives to wrest from the drawing the integrity of its materiality in favor of its cutting, tearing or remnants. The attack alters the plane or lacerate the surface until it’s reduced to pieces or residue. Attacking here must be both understood as the beginning of an action, of an interpretation whose intensity aims to modify or alter its object, but also an undertaking to destroy it to a greater or lesser extent, without necessarily to the point of total destruction. For even if it destroys and lacerates, it carries in its remains the reliefs or a hint of energy, the colorful brilliance of what we might call the staccato of the drawing. The fall and the fragment are also a means of recomposing, through color, incision or fastening, what will make a painting. painting or the staple that fixes and/or joins, can also be the sketch of a line, and by multiplication cover. The economy of means does not preclude the expressiveness and productive power of energy as well as assumed simplicity, the complexity of perceptions. Scratching and incising, or the tearing become the tools of drawing, color, a statement of the plan and a staple can be the ‘morpheme’ of a model, a skin or a color.” Philippe Cyroulnik, art critic and exhibition curator.
Her practice focuses on the economy of gesture and support. She works with materials She transforms them through the systematic use of color. By imposing a or a basic gesture, she succeeds in changing our initial perception of these materials and the traditional vocabulary of painting and sculpture.
His work has been exhibited at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris, the Château d’Oiron, the IAC in Villeurbanne, the Espace d’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux and the 23rd edition of Art dans les chapelles in Brittany. In 2008, she deployed a monumental in situ work, SpacioCorès, at Passerelle, Brest, for the art center’s patio, then reinterpreted this piece a few months later at Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin. In 2023, she took part in Pommery Experience #17 and presented her solo show “O salto” at Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg. She has won several institutional grants and awards, and has been a resident at the Cité des Arts in Paris, Location One in New York, the Terra Foundation in Giverny, Astérides in Marseille and the Domaine de Kerguéhennec. In 2018, she will be in residence at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation in Ireland.
In 2019, she won a public commission for the town of Vitry-sur-Seine, where she created Pietra paesina, two drawings in granite and marble pavements, each measuring 300 m2 square. In 2021, she receives her second individual creation grant from the Drac Ile de France, as well as a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2022, she won the Ekphrasis grant from ADAGP and Quotidien de l’art. Her works are in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, FRAC Normandie, Fondation Anni et Josef Albers, CNAP (Centre National des arts plastiques), Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, Fonds graphique et photographique de la ville de Vitry-sur-Seine, FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Poitou-Charentes…
In 2025, Isabelle Ferreira will have a solo exhibition at the MAAT Museum in Lisbon and is currently working on her first monograph.
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