{"id":32495,"date":"2025-08-30T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32495\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:00:23","slug":"pinacoteca-de-sao-paulo-and-chanel-culture-fund-launch-new-residency-for-women-artists-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32495\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo and Chanel Culture Fund launch new residency for women artists – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brazilian artist Juliana dos Santos is the inaugural recipient of a newly launched residency for women artists, founded by Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> and the Chanel Culture Fund. Dos Santos\u2019s work explores themes related to plants and pigments native to Brazil and the sensory experience of colour; it spans painting, installation, video, performance and other media.<\/p>\n

Dos Santos was born in 1987 in S\u00e3o Paulo and holds a doctorate in art from the Instituto de Artes at S\u00e3o Paulo State University. In her thesis, The Time of Colour, Dos Santos presents her research on the blue pigmentation of the Clitoria ternatea flower, a central element in her work. Dos Santos encourages viewers to observe the \u201cperformative\u201d qualities of the pigment, which \u201cfades and opens a sensitive space for reflection on transformation and impermanence\u201d, she tells The Art Newspaper.<\/p>\n

The forthcoming residency will provide Dos Santos with opportunity to further her botanical studies and explore new technologies that can contribute to her investigations of the flower. \u201cI\u2019m interested in capturing its sound and scent, expanding its presence into other sensory dimensions,\u201d Dos Santos says. The residency will build on her research into texts like The Nature of Brazilian Colours by Maibe Maroccolo\u2014who developed handmade watercolour paints from yerba mate, Brazilian indigo, Catuaba bark and other local plants.<\/p>\n

The work of artists like Wolfgang Laib (with his use of yellow pollen) and Aboubakar Fofana (with his indigo blue) have also been important references. \u201cI have developed a desire to better understand the origins of colour and different types of pigments,\u201d Dos Santos says. \u201cI am particularly interested in engaging in dialogue with artists who work with colour through its raw materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Inside Juliana dos Santos\u2019s studio Photo: Levi Fanan<\/p>\n

This month, Dos Santos opened her first solo museum exhibition at Galeria Pra\u00e7a, a space situated in Pina Contempor\u00e2nea, one of three complexes that make up Pinacoteca de S\u00e3o Paulo. The exhibition, Juliana dos Santos: Tempor\u00e3<\/a> (until 8 February 2026), is the culmination of a previous residency, where Dos Santos says she sought to \u201cpush the boundaries of scale\u201d, creating 200 metres of pigmentation using the Clitoria ternatea flower and a transfer technique.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way Juliana approaches her practice is dynamic and open to the unexpected\u2014to the timing of the flower, to the shifts brought by the temperature of each colour and pigment she experiments with,\u201d says the show\u2019s curator, Lorraine Mendes. \u201cJuliana moves beautifully through colour and shapes, from paintings and seedlings hung on the walls, to experimentation with forms that break away from the primacy of the rectangle as the standard pictorial surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

She adds: \u201cHaving Tempor\u00e3 broadens public reach, generates content for the museum\u2019s own educational initiatives around abstract art, educates new ways of seeing and creates dialogues with younger artists who are still searching for their own poetics and paths.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Inside Juliana dos Santos\u2019s studio Photo: Levi Fanan<\/p>\n

Next month, Dos Santos will present a virtual reality (VR) work that similarly explores the spiritual symbolism of natural pigments in the 36th edition of the Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> (6 September 2025-11 January 2026). The work will be shown as part of the biennial\u2019s newly launched Apparitions programme, which brings VR works to the exterior of the main exhibition building and other sites.<\/p>\n

Dos Santos was previously included in the 12th Mercosur Biennial, which was held virtually in 2020, and participated in the third edition of the Triennial of Arts at Sesc Sorocaba in S\u00e3o Paulo in 2021. She has been featured in several group exhibitions in Brazilian museums, including at Museu de Arte do Rio, and has been nominated twice for the Pipa Prize\u2014one of the most prestigious awards for contemporary artists in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The Chanel Culture Fund was launched in 2021 to support artists and long-term art projects. It supported the French Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet<\/a> as the French representative at the 60th Venice Biennale. It also collaborated with Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin this year to launch an annual commissioning series for monumental works, which was given to the Czech artist Kl\u00e1ra Hosnedlov\u00e1 in its inaugural year. The fund also holds the Chanel Next Prize<\/a>, granting recipients \u20ac100,000 and mentorship opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brazilian artist Juliana dos Santos is the inaugural recipient of a newly launched residency for women artists,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[25448,25451,365,362,363,364,377,366,18,117,19,17,25450,25449],"class_list":{"0":"post-32495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artist-residency","9":"tag-artist-in-residence-programme","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-brazil","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-pinacoteca-de-sao-paulo","21":"tag-sao-paulo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}