Priscila Fernandes

conceptueel - artistiek onderzoek - fotografie - schilderen - publicatie - video - internationaal - installatie - analytisch

Priscila Fernandes (1981, Portugal) is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in an ongoing research into education, play, and the dialectics of work and leisure. She works in a broad range of media: from video installation, painting, photography and publications. She is the co-head of BEAR - Base for Experiment, Art and Research - at ArtEZ, Arnhem. She was a resident artist at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, IAPSIS Stockholm and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Her work has been exhibited widely. Recent exhibitions include "Live Uncertainty", 32nd São Paulo Biennial with the installation "Cuckoo Land and Other Futures"; "The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School" at Foundation Joan Miró, Barcelona; Back to the sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavik Art Museum; "Playgrounds", Museum Reina Sofia; "Those bastards in caps ...", TENT, Rotterdam. Priscila is the winner of Brutus Award (AVL Mundo, 2018) and EDP Novos Artistas (2011).