Inauguração do Museu #01, 2006,
Photograph, 85 x 107 cm, Courtesy of the Artist
A Possibilidade de uma fuga, 2012,
Poster for the installation, serigraphy, 50 x 70 cm, MIIAC collection
A Possibilidade de uma fuga, 2012,
Installation view at CAAA, Guimarães, Portugal
Museu em Construção..., 2009,
Exhibition View at galeria Baginski
Palas Atenea no Acervo do MIIAC, 2009,
140 x 160 cm, Artist's collection
Palas Atenea / Alexandre?, 2007,
Vídeo projection, 4:3, mini dv
Rembrandt no acervo do MIIAC, 2010,
Exhibition view at Sala Bebé, Lisbon
-R123GCAB-, 2011,
Panel of 326 anonymous photos, 100 x 400 cm, MIIAC archive
-R123GCAB-, 2011,
326 anonymous photos (detail), 100 x 400 cm, MIIAC archive
A invenção da memória, 2008-201_,
Photograph, 80 x 100 cm, BES-Art collection, Lisbon
“A Colecção é uma forma de...”, 2011/12, Exhibition View at galeria Baginski, JPS@
João Paulo Serafim
(Paris, 1974). Lives and works in Lisbon.
João Paulo Serafim’s work in photography manipulates reality by use of mannequins and models or through manipulation of already existing images, making fine lines of the borders between reality and the artificial.
In the installation proposed “The possibility of an escape”João Paulo Serafim, exceeds the boundaries of photography and the two-dimensional plane, in the installation, the film merges space, dance and the moving image to create a dialogue between different media and artistic fields.
João Paulo Serafim often exhibits his work individually; in 2008, he presented “The Improbable Museum” at the Centro Cultural da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian of Paris and at the Museu Blanes in Montevideo. In 2006, he presented “Je t’aime moi non plus” at the project Box4 of the Galeria Silva Cintra in Rio de Janeiro and at the Galeria Baginski in Lisbon in 2005. Also In 2005, he presented “Klauzal Tér,” at an individual exhibition at the Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes in Sines and also at the Arquivo Municipal of Lisbon Photography.
He has participated in a number of collective exhibitions: in 2008 he participated in the “Paisagem & Povoamento” at the Centro Cultural Emérico Nunes in Sines, Portugal; “Nuit de l’Europe” at the Recontres d’Arles, France; “AAFNY (Affordable Art Fair of New York)”, New York, USA; and “Sub- stance” in Spike Island, Bristol, UK. In 2007 he participated in “Remembering Jack Kerouac” at Es- paço Avenida, Lisbon; “Open Studio do Sítio das Artes” at CAMJAP/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon; “Young Art Europe 2007,” at Moya– Museum of Young Art, in Vienna, Austria; and “Homo Migratus” at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal.
In 2006, he won the Fotografia da Purificación García award.João Paulo Serafim has represented his work in various important collections like: Museu MACE, collection of António Cachola in Elvas, Fundação PLMJ in Lisbon as well as in the collections of the Banco Privado, Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and in the BES-ART of the Banco Espírito Santo collection; in Spain he has a work in the Purificación García collection.
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