Juliana Julieta

My artistic practice characterizes by the persistence on the traditional mediums of drawing and painting and the cross-boundaries (and its contaminations) between mediums such as photography, video and installation.

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In a commitment and persistence in the tradition of painting, when painting I try to enter through the space of language, to widen it, to open new paths, new forms. I look for new possibilities that wandering allows, for the unknown that risks both the failure, and the meeting of what is not yet known.
It is the painting that imposes a direction within the process of being made - and so I have to live up to. It takes an agile lightness, a distraction of deep attention, a forgetfulness that allows concentration in the creative act. Painting time is a time of dynamics, succession gestures, attention intensities to certain things, a set of vision and action-reaction of the artist's body, and the body of the ink.



The artistic project is thought as an essay, an approach: to the painting and to the understanding of things. This notion of rehearsal refers to the idea of path, exercise, intention, which is infinite in itself. It is an attitude of predisposition to know. To paint as a way to exist and to be, to ...

Juliana Julieta Ferreira, 1994, Portugal.

BA in Painting, Fine Arts of Oporto

MA in Painting, Fine Arts Lisbon (2016-2018)

Visual artist, works from life, finding expression in Painting, Video, Photography, writing.