Francisca Carvalho (Coimbra, 1981) completed the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Ar.Co in Lisbon in 2005, earned a degree in Philosophy from the New University of Lisbon FCSH (2009), and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) (2016). From 2014 to 2016, she was a Fulbright / Carmona e Costa Foundation and Mount Royal School of Art Scholar. Her work revolves around the handling of symbols, which are translated into collages, drawings, and textiles.
Her individual exhibitions include: “Chordata,” Culturgest, Porto (2016), "Hasta," National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi, India (2018), "Tiger Mountain," A Maior, Viseu (2018), “Loom,” ArtWorks, Póvoa de Varzim (2019); “Às nonas, Midas nos dedos medram e mondam” at the Almada Municipal Gallery (2021); “Cosmic Tones” at CIAJG, Guimarães (2021). She participated in the exhibition of the five finalists of the "Art on Paper Navigator Prize," Chiado 8, Lisbon (2018). Also in 2018, she was awarded scholarships from the Oriente Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, conducting practical research in India on patterns, natural dyes, kalamkari, and hand block printing in Rajasthan and Gujarat, India.
Her participation in group exhibitions includes: “Plano de Contingência” at the Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon (2023), “Ninguém. Só eu,” Centro de Arte Oliva (2022); “Farsa” at Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil; “Isolation, Oscillation,” Outono Projects, New York (2021); “Triângulo,” Brotéria, Lisbon (2021); “Orto di Incendio,” Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica di Roma (2019); "Gabinete de Moda," Gabinete, Lisbon (2017); “Small Victories,” School 33, Baltimore (2016); “Francisca Carvalho and Pedro Faria,” Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium (2014).
Additionally, she co-founded and coordinated the Atelier Concorde in Lisbon (2010 – 2014) and has practiced as a Drawing and Painting teacher at Ar.Co (2008 - 2021) and as a Visiting Artist in the Master’s program at Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2020-2021).
Henri Michaux says, “to create a being, one must create a situation.” In this exhibition, I present a small group of paintings on glass of varying dimensions. The scale, temperature, and consistency of the material – glass – dictate the visual rhythm between the paintings, and in each one, this rhythm emerges from the insistent composition of certain geometric forms that can also be found in Indian Tantra drawings and El Lissitzky's posters.
Credits
resources: glass, iron, weldingformat: cycle 01Photography & video: Bruno Lança
