Vera Chaves Barcellos

1938, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lives and works between Viamão, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain

Vera Chaves Barcellos | On Ice, 1978 | print on cotton paper | 70 x 70 cm (each) | 6 + 3PA

Vera Chaves Barcellos | On Ice, 1978 | print on cotton paper | 70 x 70 cm (each) | 6 + 3PA

Vera Chaves Barcellos | O estranho desaparecimento de V.C.B., 1976 | Print on photographic paper | 9 photographs - 24 x 18 cm each / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos | O estranho desaparecimento de V.C.B., 1976 | Print on photographic paper | 9 photographs - 24 x 18 cm each / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Epidermic Scapes, 1977 | Print on cotton paper | 53 x 62 cm each / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Epidermic Scapes, 1977 | Print on cotton paper | 53 x 62 cm each / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Radical Women, 2017 | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles installation view

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Radical Women, 2017 | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles installation view

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Memória de Barcelona, 1977 | Print on cotton paper | 19 x 27,5 cm (each) / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos | Memória de Barcelona, 1977 | Print on cotton paper | 19 x 27,5 cm (each) / Ed. 5

Vera Chaves Barcellos

1938, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lives and works between Viamão, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain

From the beginning of her career, Chaves Barcellos has been interested in the reuse of pre-existing images taken from the media to develop works using video, photography, engraving and installation. The artist’s research takes as its starting point the relationship between the body and time: performing characters and narratives from the past and the future, focusing on stories that were left out of historiography, documenting and collecting archive materials from local events or from personal memory.

Vera Chaves Barcellos was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1938, and currently lives and works between Viamão, Brazil, and Barcelona, Spain. Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums and biennials including: São Paulo Biennial, Brazil; Havana Biennial, Cuba; Venice Biennale, Italy; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Museu D’Art de Girona, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil; SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil; Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; MASP-Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil. Her work is part of the collections of institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; MACBA-Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain; MAC-Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil.