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Claiming to Be Finding: A solo exhibition by Alice Quaresma

Past exhibition
14 November - 20 December 2024
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Press release

Pablo’s Birthday is pleased to present Claiming to Be Finding, a solo exhibition by Alice Quaresma. Within her practice, Quaresma abandons the assertion of objectivity and shifts the content of images into partially figurative, partially abstract collages. Her engagement with the photographic structure plays with the relationship between depth/flatness and representation/abstraction,  using geometry as a universal way to play with objectivity. Quaresma investigates the limits of photography as a medium of truth and precision in relation to the condition of memory. 


Looking to the Neo-Concrete movement– a 1950s Brazilian art movement that applied a greater sensuality, color, and poetic feeling to the concrete art movment– Quaresma deconstructs her images from her archive with paint, pencil, crayon, paper, and other materials in search of a disconnection and fragmentation. Implementing shapes or lines of color  on top of the images or perhaps adding a second image layer, Quaresma’s approach is spontaneous and non-linear, allowing her to document discoveries and the unknown as she reworks and reinterprets. 


In Claiming to Be Finding, Quaresma uses these disruptive elements to visualize feelings of detachment that arise from her experience immigrating from Brazil to London and the US. Claiming to Be Finding was born by observing these feelings– whether prompted by a cultural, emotional, or physical separation. Through this process, geography of the presented landscape is lost, embodying past memories, constantly searching for a sense of belonging. Quaresma revisits each moment, seeking to forge new connections with the photographs from her past, provoking nostalgia, and recalling the emotions, scents, tastes, and feels associated with each moment. 


By merging abstraction with personal history, she invites viewers to reflect on their own connections to place and identity, ultimately challenging the notion of photography as a proxy of memory. Through this lens, she underscores the complexities of cultural, emotional, and physical displacement with the ongoing search for connection.

 
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Works
  • Growing Organism, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil, acrylic and gouache paint 36 x 40 in 92 x 102 cm
    Growing Organism, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil, acrylic and gouache paint
    36 x 40 in
    92 x 102 cm
  • The Extent of the Distance, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil, acrylic and gouache paint 30 x 40 in 76 x 102 cm
    The Extent of the Distance, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil, acrylic and gouache paint
    30 x 40 in
    76 x 102 cm
  • Past that Is Unreal, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and overlapped photograph with tape 25 x 35 in 64 x 91 cm
    Past that Is Unreal, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and overlapped photograph with tape
    25 x 35 in
    64 x 91 cm
  • Claims of Truth, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint 20 x 30 in 50 x 76 cm
    Claims of Truth, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint
    20 x 30 in
    50 x 76 cm
  • It had to be Reconstructed, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint 20 x 25 in 50 x 63 cm
    It had to be Reconstructed, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint
    20 x 25 in
    50 x 63 cm
  • Geography Changed by Large, 2024 Canvas cutout with photograph cutouts, color paper and acrylic paint 22 x 21 in 56 x 53 cm
    Geography Changed by Large, 2024
    Canvas cutout with photograph cutouts, color paper and acrylic paint
    22 x 21 in
    56 x 53 cm
  • Short Period of Time, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint 18 x 20 in 45 x 50 cm
    Short Period of Time, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and acrylic paint
    18 x 20 in
    45 x 50 cm
  • The World of Sacred Times, 2024 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and overlapped photograph and painted paper 17 x 26 in 43 x 66 cm
    The World of Sacred Times, 2024
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color pencil and overlapped photograph and painted paper
    17 x 26 in
    43 x 66 cm
  • Isolated Islands, 2024 Painting on canvas with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint 10 x 8 in 25 x 20 cm
    Isolated Islands, 2024
    Painting on canvas with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint
    10 x 8 in
    25 x 20 cm
  • Separated from the Closest Land, 2024 Painting on canvas with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint 10 x 8 in 25 x 20 cm
    Separated from the Closest Land, 2024
    Painting on canvas with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint
    10 x 8 in
    25 x 20 cm
  • Gone, 2024 Painting on wood board with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint 10 x 8 in 25 x 20 cm
    Gone, 2024
    Painting on wood board with photograph cutout, color paper and acrylic paint
    10 x 8 in
    25 x 20 cm
  • Marginal Phenomena, 2023 Photograph printed on cotton paper with color paper 8 x 6.7 in 21 x 17 cm
    Marginal Phenomena, 2023
    Photograph printed on cotton paper with color paper
    8 x 6.7 in
    21 x 17 cm

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