Aline Bispo
Aline Bispo
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Pluarity is at the core of artist Aline Bispo (1989, São Paulo, Brazil) artistic practice. Her visual research articulates images in different instances. Bispo creates illustrations where figurations of religious icons meet elements of nature and political symbols in graphic compositions, marked by colored surfaces sustained by the artist’s brushstrokes. Canvas, paper, book covers, newspaper columns, building façades, fabrics, and her own body in performance, are some of the possible supports for the artist, who seeks not to limit herself. In her creative process, the same image can transit between different media, acquiring new material properties and meanings. Based on the idea of syncretism, her production aims to transform Brazilian cultural imagery.
Aline’s work often goes beyond traditional art spaces to find audiences in different contexts. This encounter is fundamental in the artist’s practice, which investigates themes that cross the sociocultural formation of Brazil from the violent clash between Europeans and Africans. Syncretism emerges as an approach to the effects of miscegenation, permeating the artist’s work with common visual elements to Christianity and Afro-diasporic religions, but with different meanings. Spirituality is present even in the elements of nature, whose ritual importance as medicine and food, is based on ancestral knowledge.
Alongside her artistic practice, since 2020, Aline Bispo is a curator at Ibirapitanga Institute, dedicated to the defense of freedom and democratic practices in Brazil. Bispos first solo exhibition A medicina rústica, pinturas de Aline Bispo (2021), took place at Galeria Luis Maluf, in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works were on display in many group exhibitions, including: Dos Brasis: Arte e pensamento negro, at Sesc Belenzinho, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Mães – No imaginário da arte, at Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araújo, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Mulheres que mudaram 200 anos, at Caixa Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Ocupação Olhares Inspirados: Raquel Trindade, Rainha Kambinda, at Sesc 24 de maio, in São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Tenho os olhos abertos, não posso mais voltar, at Adelina Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2019). Bispo’s works can be found in important institucional collections, such as: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (MACRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, which will promote Bispo’s first Museum’s solo exhibition in November, 2023.
Pluarity is at the core of artist Aline Bispo (1989, São Paulo, Brazil) artistic practice. Her visual research articulates images in different instances. Bispo creates illustrations where figurations of religious icons meet elements of nature and political symbols in graphic compositions, marked by colored surfaces sustained by the artist’s brushstrokes. Canvas, paper, book covers, newspaper columns, building façades, fabrics, and her own body in performance, are some of the possible supports for the artist, who seeks not to limit herself. In her creative process, the same image can transit between different media, acquiring new material properties and meanings. Based on the idea of syncretism, her production aims to transform Brazilian cultural imagery.
Aline’s work often goes beyond traditional art spaces to find audiences in different contexts. This encounter is fundamental in the artist’s practice, which investigates themes that cross the sociocultural formation of Brazil from the violent clash between Europeans and Africans. Syncretism emerges as an approach to the effects of miscegenation, permeating the artist’s work with common visual elements to Christianity and Afro-diasporic religions, but with different meanings. Spirituality is present even in the elements of nature, whose ritual importance as medicine and food, is based on ancestral knowledge.
Alongside her artistic practice, since 2020, Aline Bispo is a curator at Ibirapitanga Institute, dedicated to the defense of freedom and democratic practices in Brazil. Bispos first solo exhibition A medicina rústica, pinturas de Aline Bispo (2021), took place at Galeria Luis Maluf, in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works were on display in many group exhibitions, including: Dos Brasis: Arte e pensamento negro, at Sesc Belenzinho, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Mães – No imaginário da arte, at Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araújo, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Mulheres que mudaram 200 anos, at Caixa Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Ocupação Olhares Inspirados: Raquel Trindade, Rainha Kambinda, at Sesc 24 de maio, in São Paulo, Brazil (2021); Tenho os olhos abertos, não posso mais voltar, at Adelina Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2019). Bispo’s works can be found in important institucional collections, such as: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (MACRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, which will promote Bispo’s first Museum’s solo exhibition in November, 2023.