selected works
mairadn@gmail.com
My works often give digital images a material body, using varied media like analog photography processes, watercolors, egg tempera painting, and even embroidery.
Another part of my work deals with language. My investigations on different perceptions of time led me to study verb tenses in Amerindian grammar, as well as calendars.
My practice is influenced by ancient meditative/spiritual traditions like Japanese sumi-e, Mayan calendars, Icon painting, Brazilian umbanda, and Amerindian languages.
She attended PEI -Independent Studies Program (MACBA-Barcelona), she holds a master degree in Literature, Culture and Contemporarity (PUC-Rio), and a degree of License in Visual Arts (FAAP-São Paulo).
She presented solo shows in Tangent Projects (Barcelona); Portas Vilaseca Galeria (Rio de Janeiro); Espaço Sergio Porto (Rio de Janeiro); and CCSP (São Paulo). She was part of group shows in institutions like La Escocesa, CED-MACBA, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Casa França-Brasil, Sesc Consolação, MAM-Rio, and others, as well as in independent spaces like CSO Nabat 3, Solar dos Abacaxis, and Casa Tomada, to name a few.
Some of the art residencies attended are: Exchange Homesession (Belgrade), Lastro Centro-América (Antigua Guatemala), Z/KU (Berlin), and CAPACETE (Rio de Janeiro).
She ran the artist space Ateliê 1m2, where she organized and hosted open presentations and experiments of many fellos artists. Within the Archipel In√est, she co-developed the þit, a project that opened a private space as a public park to the community where events and workshops were held. The park was managed with a self-sufficient economic model, with a financial sculpture that operated with cryptocurrency mining, and it was operational for 5 months. As a founding member of Agência Transitiva (2013-2015), she experimented with different modes for financial support, collective writing and translation, within an adhesive transversal network. As an associate member of La Escocesa in Barcelona since 2019, she was part of the CO-rpus group. She was a long-term studio artist at Tangent Projects, Barcelona, where she developed and organized the Process Sharing meetings among fellow residents. She is also founding member of the Associació Cultural Ca La Moriche.
NEVES, Maíra das; Praça Uruçu-Paris-Mirim; Lingoa Geral, Barcelona and São Paulo; 2019
with Agência Transitiva: