Paula Almozara, a Brazilian artist born in Campinas in 1968, will present the exhibition “Paisagem-ficção” (“Landscape-Fiction”) at Galeria das Salgadeiras in June 2015. She has developed her artistic work in the field of printmaking and its technical variants, as well as photography, often adopting an installation format to enhance the viewer’s experience. She has exhibited since 1997, primarily in Brazilian galleries and museums, and is represented in several collections in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, and Argentina. She is also a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Visual Arts at PUC-Campinas. She recently won the 2014 Prémio Brasil Fotografia in the Project Development category for “research based on the rupture of notions of technical reproducibility, stemming from experimentation with analog photography.”

Her relationship with Portugal is not recent. In 2012 she participated in an artistic residency for the Bienal de Cerveira, and on two occasions she was invited as a guest artist by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, visiting our country frequently.

In what is, however, her first solo exhibition in Portugal, Paula Almozara will present a series of small-scale objects (25 x 25 x 3 cm) which, in the artist’s own words, aim to “question and challenge the existing limits regarding the notion of technical reproducibility in the relationship between matrix/multiple and the unique object, carrying out experimentations based on analog photography.”

“Paisagem-ficção” addresses the artistic genre of Landscape, yet from a fictional perspective, in that elements are inserted and fused to reinvent and reinterpret the existing and “real” landscape. It is a fragmented landscape, created through less classical printmaking processes that incorporate photographic images which, together with the matrix, stimulate imagination and memory.