Adriana Tabalipa

Born in Curitiba and based in Rio de Janeiro, Adriana Tabalipa currently lives and works between these two cities.

Visual artist, performer, engraver, painter, drawer and free thinker.

She began her career in the late 80s. She participated in numerous national and international collective and individual exhibitions. Between them The End Factory Project, Fundacion Valenzuela Y Klenner, Bogotá, Colômbia. O Objeto: 60/90´s daily, art, Cultural Institute Itaú, São Paulo SP and MAM – RJ. Layers of Brazilian Art, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa, USA. Palmo quadrado, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, Califórnia,USA. Arte Brasileno de Hoy, Sala de Armas, Ciudadela. Pamplona, Espanha. Arte Jovem del Brazil, Gallery Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla, Espanha.

She has won several awards and has her work represented in important public and private collections. Like the one by Gilberto Chateaubriand at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. One of her most recent singles “The End Factory Project” was curated by the Colombian curator Santiago Rueda and traveled to several capitals. Tabalipa’s works reveal everyday objects and places with direct reference to the relation between them and the human body as well as the energy existing in these relations. In 2012 founded the collective S.T.A.R in which she has been developing works of performance and experimental films along with other members and guest artists participating in exhibitions and festivals. Currently, she has dedicated herself to painting and drawing, with Performance Art as a focus of action in his artistic production, full of poetic power and philosophical questions.

My interests involve the knowledge and experimentation of energy. Whether from the action of the body on the physical world or the energy present in matter and in the immaterial. The impregnation of energy present in intimate everyday objects as an apprehension of a kind “Archaeology of Contemporaneity”. A quantum mechanics of senses and affections, memory, absence and presence. The state of presence that is able to channel the transcendent in the search for transmutation. The reorganization of materials capable of revealing re-significations. The poetic power that resides in the manifestation of a state of presence in the right here and right now. The practice of Performance Art as Art-Life, Life-Art as an engine to drive energy fields in polydimensional layers in a kind of Philosophy in the Art of Living. The “Open-Source” Methodology as a way of being together in the most essential expression of being in the territory of Art.