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RU artist-in-residence Pàulla Scàvazzini in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Pàulla’s work has been part of the duo exhibition “BETWEEN UTOPIAS AND THE ABYSS” opening on April 23rd, 6-8 pm, at Kaliner Gallery, on view until May 30.
Pàulla Scàvazzini’s practice constructs utopias primarily through paintings of strong color intensity and an atmospheric, synesthetic character, developed across multiple supports and scales — from small formats that function as capsules or poetic windows, fragments or condensed syntheses of a broader pictorial universe, inviting memory, contemplation, and a sensitive reconfiguration of space — to architectural dimensions, echoing her background in architecture. Her work is consistently marked by gestural expression and a playful interplay between reality and fiction. She investigates essential aspects of painting — color, facture, light, composition, and scale — in dialogue with the expression of a historically subjugated feminine force. Drawing on references to Brazilian tropical botany and reflecting on Brazil’s history as a colonized country, her paintings oscillate between natural exuberance, environmental collapse, and the glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, articulating both the apocalyptic chaos of the global conjuncture and a luminous outlook on the future.
A special thank you to Art in Brackets for providing Pàulla with a studio at Art in Brackets Tribeca!
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