DEBORA BOLSONI: CHANGING PLACES

"Leaks open defrost A portrait on a bare wall, just plastered in a gray room. Besides the portrait, there are few things in the gallery space. A short wall of notepads - railing by the window; a group of soup bowls against the wall; a tapestry drain in one corner and a cobbled carpet pavement in another.

In "Mudança de Lugar" the most present sensation is that the objects are trying to act from their corresponding places. At first they seem to conform to a kind of spatial convention. It is this operation of taking advantage of the "right" place of things that makes us question their real nature and glimpse the nonconformity inherent in their existence. Thus, in the same way that there is the "right" place of the portrait that does not conform to the "right" place of the portrayed, there is also the place provided for the drain, which however is not the place provided for the carpet. But if the drain is as thin as the carpet, where will it belong? Paradoxes such as this are present in Débora Bolsoni's exhibition and as a whole lend density to the space that is practically empty.

about the artist:

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1975 Débora Bolsoni studied Visual Arts at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and a degree in Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 1992 he lived for six months in England where he studied drawing at the Saint Martin School of Art in London. Since 1995 he lives in São Paulo where he completed his degree in Fine Arts at the University of São Paulo. Between 1998 and 2002 he carried out collective actions with the art group Olho sp and also with EXO – Experimental Org. In 1999, it was selected for mapping the emerging production of the Itaú Cultural Rumos Visuais project and held traveling exhibitions throughout the country. In 2002, she did an internship as a researcher at the Museum of Images of the Unconscious of the Nise daSilveira Institute of the Pedro II Psychiatric Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004, she was selected for an Arts residency at the Remisen-Brande Culture Center in Denmark. In 2005, she was selected for the artistic residency of the Bolsa Pampulha project, granted by the city hall of Belo Horizonte, MG. In 2006, he made the site specific, Gruta Pampulha, for the auditorium of the Museu de Arte da Pampulha and the solo exhibition without title at the Centro de Cultura Maria Antônia at USP in São Paulo. In 2007, Débora participates - in the same period as her solo exhibition at the Marília Razuk gallery - in the Panorama of Visual Arts at MAM, São Paulo SP