Isabel Correia, 1974
Lives and works in Lisbon
BIO
Got a degree at ESAD das Caldas da Rainha 2000. Won a Scholarship from Erasmus Program in Contemporary Art at Nottingham Trent University 1999. Post Graduation in Perceptive Pedagogy of Movement at Universidade Moderna 2001. Training in Drawing at Ar.co, Sociedade Nacional Belas Artes, International School of Art in Italy and St. Martins School in London. Training in Contemporary dance in C.E.M, Forum Dança and F.C.Gulbenkian in Lisbon and Butoh dance in Mamu Center, Germany; Body Weather Farm, Japan. Taught Sculpture and Art Management at Universidade de Évora in 2001-2003. Developed sculpture and performance art work, did exhibitions and performances between 1997-2002. Concluded the 4 year Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Retreat in 2003-2007. As a guest teacher, co-led art and meditation sessions at Universidade de Lisboa, Portuguese Buddhist Union, as well as other schools in 2008-2010. Was an assistant teacher at Educational Service in Museu do Oriente, 2008-2011. Delivered lectures on Art and Meditation in several places, 2008, Contemporary Drawing at Nextart in 2011 and Introduction to Buddhism and Buddhist Art at Museu Oriente in 2014. Since 2008 is a drawing teacher at Nextart. Currently, researches, teaches and works in the area of drawing.
ART WORK + PEDAGOGY
Between 1997 – 2002 developed installations and performances in Portugal, Italy, U.K and Japan interacting in public areas, which hold the involving space as well as its cultural and social context as an inner element of the work itself, together with a reason for reflection upon the art work’s status.
In 2001 rises an interest for Buddhism, Eastern Art and meditation, which will lead the nature of the work towards a dematerialization, ephemerality and formal minimization, emphasizing the creative process itself, which reach its peak in 2003 in a four year Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Retreat. From 2008 on devotes herself to the research of the influence of meditation on art, in the perception process and visual creation. Starts a new developing work in drawing, approaches the landscape theme as a privileged field to investigate reality. Develops a body of work where she interrelates macro and micro hearth landscape with the cosmological universe, exploring phenomenological issues on the absence of substantiality of matter, time impermanency, indeterminacy of existence. These characteristics guide the content and the process of work. As a drawing teacher after 2008, has been deepening issues of perception and doing research on pedagogical methodologies which enhance recognition, access and integration of a sensitive and precise visual perception
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 PHENOMENA, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon
2000 Whole Hole, Reservatório da Patriarcal EPAL, Lisbon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2015 ‘Lines all ready there’, Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira
2002 7 Contemplation Places, CENTA, Vila Velha Rodão
Performance Dust Wings, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisbon
Performance Double(s), Galeria Sumo Preto, Lisbon
2001 Performance 121 ONETWOONE, Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisbon
Soulstone, Centro Paulo VI, Fátima
Blisters, Galeria Arte dos 300, Lisbon
Performance ‘ZOOM’ of Sofia Neuparth, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon
Performance ‘Elements’, Companhia Atelier Beni, Azabu Die Pratze Theater, Tokyo - Japan
Performance, Body Weather Farm – Butoh, Hakushu - Japan
2000 Scenography ‘Apocalipse 1,11’, Teatro Vertigem, Acarte, Fundação C.Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Scenography ‘Reptils’, Grupo Gaxxx, Festival Sentidos Grátis, OPorto e Coimbra
Installation Untitled, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria
Performance 121 ONETWONE, Caldas Late Night, Caldas da Rainha
Video Travel, Galeria SAL, Caldas da Rainha
‘Enlightened’, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos – Jubileu, Lisbon
1999 Wallskin, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham - England
Wallskin, Biblioteca da Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham - England
Perfomance ‘Existenz’ Extensions’, Ruas de Nottingham com Tashi Iwaoka, Nottingham - England
Dwelling, Green House do Castelo de Nottingham, Nottingham - England
1998 Untitled, Bienal da Marinha Grande, Marinha Grande
1997 Students Exhibition, Galeria ISA – International School of Art, Perugia –Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Catalogue, XVIII Bienal de Cerveira 2015, p. ; Vila Nova de Cerveira
2014 Maria Morais, ‘When silence lets itself be surprised’ (‘Quando o silêncio se deixa surpreender’), for Solo Exhibition in Galeria Diferença, Lisbon
2000 Luís Porfírio, ‘The unbearable support’ (‘O suporte insuportável’), for Solo Exhibition in Reservatório da Patriarcal – Water Museum, Lisbon
COLECTIONS
Museu da Água - EPAL
© 2014 Isabel Correia