Paulo Nimer Pjota
Paulo Nimer Pjota is a painter living and working in Sāo Paulo, Brazil. The starting point of his works is the nature of collectively originated phenomena. Studying iconographies of shared popular and art-historical authorship, the artist draws from the urban culture that nourished his cultural upbringing and awakening to interpret and express new ways of thinking through overlapping forms. Like hip-hop’s approach to sampling, Pjota weaves together symbols and images to expose social inequalities and explore new ways of thinking through collective visual narratives. Of his artistic practice, he describes “I draw on the relationship between mundane objects and objects that are completely institutionalized. I am very interested in making it all uneven, with no present hierarchy.”
His exhibition, A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I), will comprise over ten newly created works together with seminal paintings created by the artist over the past twenty years. Different to his earlier work, his latest paintings root themselves in the artist’s childhood, with reference to drawings he used to make as a teenager, imagery of the countryside-scapes he grew up in, memories of his grandmother, and mythological dreamscapes from popular culture in Brazil. This solo exhibition marks Paulo’s first in the Netherlands.
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