Details

First Name

Marta

Last Name

Monteiro

Username

martam

Bio

Marta Monteiro
São Paulo, 1967
Marta Monteiro lives and works in Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil. She has a degree in Civil Engineering and studied painting at the School of Fine Arts at UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work consists of showing the relationship between consumption and everyday objects in different forms of appropriation such as drawing, painting, collage, objects, space occupation and NFTs. . In 2022, she held an artistic residency in Kaaysá, SP and participated in the 18th UBATUBA Arts Salon, São Paulo. In 2023, it was approved in 1st place in solo exibition grant, São João del-Rei, MG. She has works in private collections in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais and Brasília.

Website

martamonteiro.art

Country of residence

Brazil

Statement

Statement

Starting from the concept of the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han¹, in which “rituals transform being-in-the-world into being-at-home” and that the habitual concept of “throwing away” is confronted with the reality that ” there is no outside”, the works presented here reflect my research on the relationship between everyday consumption and the rituals and habits that we bring with us in our cultures, creations and daily rituals. In this sense, the materials limitations are resources for carrying out the works that they confront daily consumption for the execution of works. Thus, the time of consumption becomes raw material and the work, the materialization of time.
Time, as an ethereal element, can also give rise to fables in which parallel universes can talk to the present, past and future through magical interpretations where spatial and temporal distances can be doubled.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:
2023: The Tea Route – Geleria ESCADA – UFSJ Cultural Center – Curated by: Flávia Dalla Bernardina, São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2023: Imaginary Archipelagoes, Café Bamboo, Curated by: Flávia Dalla Bernardina, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2022: Eclipses, Café Bamboo and Parede Galeria, Curatorial text: Flávia Dalla Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2020-2021 The Conversation, Fragments, Lines and Circles, Café Bamboo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2019: Fragmentos, Café Bamboo and Villa Fiore, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2018: Horizontes and Fragments, Café Bamboo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil

Collectives:
2023: CowParede – Vitória, Vila Velha,Espírito Santo, Brazil
2023: 1st edition of the Vale Museum Call (virtual), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
https://www.museuvale.com/exposicoes/1/290
2023: Identity Intersections, Binária Galeria, Rio de Janeiro
(virtual) – Curated by: Gustavo Martes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023: 1st Small Formats Exhibition – Oposta Espaço Interativo – Limeira – São Paulo, Brazil
2023: Half to Half There is Half – UNIFASE/Parque Lage – curatorial guidance: Sonia Salcedo – Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2022:18th Ubatuba Visual Arts Salon,Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Interests and medias

Interests

Collage, Drawing, Mixed media

Drawing medias

Acrylic, Graphite, Ink

Collage medias

Photomontage, Decoupage