Texts
11 texts
Elements in transformation
One sentence by the artist organises everything seen here: “I see art in nature, in the angles caught of elements in transformation: transformed, or transforming.” I…
by Uiler Costa-Santos Studio
Marajó Studies
My artistic research touches on existential and philosophical questions that make me reflect on the origin of life, on finitude and on the connection between beings …
by Marcela Neves · Apresentação do projeto, 2025
Artist statement
I work from the origin. From the roots that come from before me, the stories I have lived and the cultures I met while travelling — and from the origin of life, that…
by Marcela Neves · Redação de Uiler Costa-Santos Studio a partir dos textos e do trabalho de ateliê da artista
The origin of life
Through my work I speak of my roots, of stories I have lived and of the diverse cultures I experienced while travelling — a way of connecting with the past while exp…
by Marcela Neves · Portfólio, outubro de 2025
Petricor
Developing this project was a unique experience of connection with nature: breathing life at the origin of everything, observing the microsystems that share energy, …
by Marcela Neves · Série Petricor · SUAVE coisa nenhuma, Adizza Prado Galeria, Ribeirão Preto
EX-SISTERE
To exist is not merely to be alive.
by Marcela Neves
The museum is the world
Discovering myself comes from looking at what bleeds, what tears itself open to be seen and places itself in my path.
by Marcela Neves · Portfólio MN Fine Art
Des Cobertas
The Lençóis Maranhenses seen through the small grains that shape themselves, transform and cradle the native, organic, floating life that covers and uncovers dunes i…
by Cristiano Xavier · Centro Cultural Palace, Ribeirão Preto
Des Pertar
Marcela explores the textures of foliage marked by time, fish drying in the sun, the awakening of the river people and of the people of Ribeirão Preto, without ceasi…
Exhibition text · Espaço Cultural do IEA-RP, Campus da USP, Ribeirão Preto
Diante do Sutil
Curatorial text by Marcela Bonfim for the solo exhibition Diante do Sutil, Rooftopemcasa, São Paulo, 2023. Available in Portuguese.
by Marcela Bonfim · Rooftopemcasa, São Paulo
Moving through
Marcela Neves explores moving through dichotomy as an attribute of contemporary life, making images in singular environments born of a gaze in motion, where freedom …
by Marcela Neves · Catálogo Diante do Sutil