"Memory is a tricky thing—sometimes sharp and vivid, other times fragmented and hazy. Alice Quaresma’s latest exhibition Claiming to Be Finding at the gallery Pablo’s Birthday underscores her ongoing interrogation of photography’s boundaries, engaging deeply with memory, physicality, and abstraction. Known for her use of photography as a raw material rather than a finished product, Quaresma transforms archival images—many of them personal, such as scenes from her hometown of Rio de Janeiro—by overlaying them with vibrant geometric patterns in acrylic paint, colored pencil, and ink. This tactile approach bridges her creative instincts with photographic documentation, producing pieces that are as much about personal narrative as they are about questioning the nature of representation itself." Excerpt from Musée Magazine Review by Amy Wei
Alice Quaresma: Claiming to Be Finding Review in Musée Magazine
Amy Wei, Musée Magazine
November 20, 2024
