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​Paula Blower is a Brazilian writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, WA. She studied Communication (Advertising) in Brasília and worked as an advertising writer before pursuing contemporary art at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Holding a degree in Fashion Design, she has exhibited in São Paulo, Amsterdam, and Madrid. A 2025 Tin House Scholar, Paula studies creative writing at Clark College, where she assists the Columbia Writers Series. Her fiction and artwork have won multiple 2025 Hawkins and McCordic Awards.

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Paula's work delves into the ephemeral, blending contrasting imagery and materials to craft emotionally charged landscapes, employing perishable matter and organic textures. Her experiments play with the delicate balance between object and substance, pushing the boundaries of impermanence through unconventional languages, techniques, and mediums.

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Bodies. Skins. Costumes. Techniques (or volcanos). Paula does not hesitate in putting us in front of the grotesque to feel the poetry: body-poetry. The one that passes, transpasses us. The memories here become timeless. I remember the time in its fragile linear movement, the whole time. What skin do we wear? Of which memories do we appropriate? Would you risk it? 

 

Bruna Freitas

 

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Exhibitions

 

Solo

•  Cargas e Descargas - Ponder 70 , São Paulo, 2018.

• Go ask my mother - El Cuarto de Invitados,  Madrid, 2017.

• The Roosevelt's Picnic - 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam, 2017.

 

Group

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• Juegos artificiales. Arte juguetón, jugable y juguete. Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio (Aranjuez) -Centro Sociocultural Federico García Lorca (Humanes) - Centro Sociocultural (El Álamo) - Centro Cultural (Pedrezuela) - Casa de la Cultura (Ciempozuelos) - Palacio Juan de Goyeneche (Nuevo Baztán)  - Sala Lorenzo Vaquero. Antigua Fábrica de Harinas (Getafe) - Centro socio-cultural Arango (Loeches) - Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles (Móstoles) - Casa de la Cultura (San Lorenzo de El Escorial) - Centro Cultural Juan Prado (Valdemoro) - Madrid, 2019.

• Mostra Galerianos REBENTO, Espaço MárciaXClayton, Rio de Janeiro, 2017.

• Coletiva Eixo 2017, Rio de Janeiro.

• Porcos não olham pro céu, Mostra Galerianos, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

• Tudo tem dois, Ações Performativas: Encarnando Justiças Dissidentes, Península Gallery, Porto Alegre, 2016.

• A resposta está no verso, #2 SARA- há, Espaço Saracura, Curadoria Nadam Guerra, Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

• Carta ao meu marido (video), Festival Instantâneo de Performance Urgente, Tocantins, 2015.

• Falsa Experiência Castelinho (video), Castelinho do Flamengo, Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Viana Filho, Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

• Carta ao meu marido, Castelinho do Flamengo, Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Viana Filho, Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

• Desculpe o Transtorno, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2016.

• O Antidesfile, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2015.

• Reflexión or I wanna be Kim Kardashian, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires, 2015.

• The God Damn Huge Skin Bag, Slade School of Fine Arts, London, 2014.