Maria De Fatima Lamounier

From observation of imagery in contemporary design; consumer society and fashion world I started a series of collages. By appropriating and manipulating images derived from glossy magazines and their super models I transform the copy (reproduction) created by the media into art of collages/into short videos using various materials as support. It is a figurative and surrealistic concept for which I select; modify; copy; enlarge; repeat; alter; make-up and transform all those images to bring out humor and banality. I explore the relation between emptiness and ecstasy by constructing and deconstructing the images to take them to their own limits. It is an attempt to interpret; to conceptualize and to visualize the illusory imaginary and manipulative character of the way society and media present things including women. From this viewpoint I display disconnected female figures; in pieces; divided in parts; in a perspective that is ironically transformed to represent an attitude towards women.
Recently in a metamorphose phase insects started to appear into my collages. I considered this invasion of insects on the canvas as nasty; brutal and estrange like the feminine characters I use in my work. Their alienated bodies; space and attitu...

Fundacao Escola Guignard
Belo Horizonte
Brazil

2009 group show galeria desvio belo horizonte brazil
2010 solo exhibition gallery lokaal wv15 amsterdam
2010 group show "maand van de collage" studio hergebruik rotterdam
2011 group show gallery wv15 amsterdam
2012 group show gallery wv15 amsterdam
2013 group show gallery wv15 amsterdam
2014 solo exhibition flasweekend curatorial projects belo horizonte brazil
2015 solo show flashweekend curatorial projects amsterdam