My Profile

Website

www.dilemastudio.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

University of Sao Paulo

Program

Film and Video

Graduation

30 November 1999

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Film, Installation, Photography, Video

I am...

...a Brazilian new media artist born in 1976.

Graduated in Cinema and Video from the University of Sao Paulo (2000); further film study at UCLA, Los Angeles (2002).

My videos have been exhibited and awarded prizes in more than 80 festivals in 30 countries. Among the awards I received: Best Video at Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival (France), Best Experimental Documentary at Sopot Independent Film Festival (Polland), Best Experimental Video at Cineamazonia Festival (Brazil), Honorary Award at Alucine Toronto Latino Media Festival (Canada) and Honorary Award at International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari (Italy).

In 2005, my first documentary feature film, "Woman Cries Out!", received the Best Film Award at both the CineEsquemaNovo (Brazil) and Cineport (Portugal) festivals. It was also nominated for the UNESCO Breaking The Chains Award for Best Film on the Theme of Slavery and its Outcomes.

I have participated in about 30 solo and collective exhibitions in Brazil, Canada, USA, Spain, Poland, France, Portugal and Sweden with videos, installations, performances and photos.

I have been awarded the following grants: Support for Production in Visual Arts - São Paulo Arts Council; Support for Production - Recife Art Week; Exhibition Program - São Paulo Cultural Center; and Cultural Diffusion and Exchange Program - Brazilian Ministry of Culture. I have been nominated for the Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology (2007) and the Nascente Art Award (2000).

About my artwork

I work primarily with video and photography.

I'm concerned with examining the connections between the camera, subject, author and viewer. I'm interested in issues such as the construction of identity, communication and voyeurism. I also investigate how the relationship between our body and the surrounding world (ie. nature or urban settings and culture) shapes our identity.

My greatest challenge is to find new forms of narrative by confronting established film language. I construct narratives, strategies and perceptions of reality, in search of fresh ways to connect with the viewer, defying his/her own perception of the world and proposing thought-provoking sensorial and emotional experiences.

Artists I like

So many. They have to move me.
A few examples, not in any specific order: Bill Viola, Phillip Lorca Di Corcia, Jeff Wall, Mathew Barney, Rosangela Rennó, Janaina Tschäpe, Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, Arthur Omar, Ernesto Neto, Araki, Edward Hopper, Chagall, Munch, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Van Gogh, Otto Dix, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Boticelli, Monet, Degas, Matisse, Wong Kar-Wai, Kurosawa, P.T. Anderson, Ingmar Bergman...

Interests

art+film+games+travel (please somebody take me to Japan!)

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

THE EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT at Formverk (Sweden) - opens June 4th

more info on: www.artreview.com/profile/excorpse

The centre of the artworld is

my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere

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