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Artist statement
Mariana Barros (BR). Mother. multi-artist performer. Based in Lisbon, she holds a specialization in Sound Art from Belas Artes ULisboa (PT, 2020), and graduated in Theater from UNESPAR (BR, 2013). Her trajectory is marked by several creations, collaborations, activism and participation in projects between theater, dance, sound art, plastic/visual arts and art education, and urban mobility, with a focus on performative works about body image, body object, body city, body new media, kitsch, and subjectivities. She is an artistic collaborator at PF Espaço de Perfomance (BR, 2014-2021), has more than 60 performances developed in galleries, festivals and biennials across Latin America and Europe, in addition to musical, theatrical shows, exhibitions, and others. She teaches art working on the languages of performance, has a repertoire of educational artistic objects and methodologies for children, youth and adults, with greater relevance to the laboratory methodology “Flow of Performance”, created in 2015 for performative practices and theories, and other contemporaneities. Awarded best actress with the Gralha Azul Trophy with the show “CriÂnsia” by ProcessoMultiartes (BR, 2018). Among her works, stand out: “Arredores do no” (2014) “ES|SURFACE” (BR, PT, 2015-2022), “BrazilianStrip” (BR, PT, 2017-2022) and “Perfolagem Manifesto Digital” (Digital Manifesto Perfolagem) (2017-2018). Currently, in the Portuguese context, she is dedicated to new partnerships and the development and circulation of his works, highlighting “Corpo-Espetacular” (PT, 2020-2022), “Gallery” (2021), a performative work with Bestiário at Culturgest, and “FRAM” (2021), artistic residency and exhibition at the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, among other works already mentioned. Her multi-artistic performance is in the flow of physical and intellectual dialogue to free the body from the conventions that tie any artistic language.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in several spaces, namely: Festival Iminente (2019-2020), Festival da Diversidade (2019), Dançar é minha Revolução (2019), Estufa Fria with Underdogs (2019), Festival MobisCapitis (2019-2021), Festival A Salto (2020), Projeção at the Coliseu Porto Ágeas (2020), Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (2020), Zaratan (2020) Culturgest (2021), and Bordalo Pinheiro Museum (2021).