Since October 15th, Pivô Salvador has been hosting artist Paloma Bosquê in the Ateliê space for an artistic residency.

Paloma Bosquê (Garça, SP) lives and works between São Paulo and Brussels. Bosquê has had solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2022); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2020); Blum and Poe, Tokyo (2020); Mendes Wood DM, New York (2019); Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (2017); and Pivô, São Paulo (2015). Additionally, her works have been featured in numerous institutional exhibitions, including at LGDR, London (2023); Mendes Wood DM at d’Ouwe Kerk, Retranchement (2022); Pivô, São Paulo (2021); Pac – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018); Coimbra Biennial, Coimbra (2017); The Jewish Museum, New York (2016); and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (2015).

Her research unfolds from an investigation into the materiality of bodies in transformation. Her practice revolves around the idea that the material world is the result of the interaction of bodies as a whole. By challenging Western definitions of animate and inanimate, she seeks to reach a dimension beyond language, where things cannot yet be named. By manipulating a myriad of materials, Bosquê presents bodies not as isolated entities, but as permeable and moving matter, continuously transforming one another, establishing and revoking connections within and beyond the realm of the visible.

The series “Fossils” emerges as a development of the artist’s recent research, which has been pointing towards the strangeness of the body, as a fluid instance, among other things, to question the frictions of a shared existence and, from that, to imagine other possible, unexpected forms for bodies in the world

Her research draws largely on her daily practice in the studio. There she handles and freely associates materials that are not typical of sculpture, creating compositions of varying formats and scales. In a constant search for a possible and consensual balance between her selected elements, the artist often develops specific methods to combine, juxtapose and merge materials without ever forcing them to a definitive interaction. Experimenting with the texture, weight and balance of her materials, Bosquê creates extremely delicate visual landscapes that explore the transience of matter and impermanence. Her works remind us of the fragility of the agreements that hold together everything we consider permanent or definitive.