Cinthia Marcelle was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1974. She is a Brazilian multimedia artist focusing in photography, video and installation work. She studied at the Universitadad Federal de Minas Gerais. She lives and works in Belo Horizonte.

Art

Marcelle's art is mainly characterized by the synthesis and concision of language in her work. She takes inspiration from things she sees in her everyday life such as typical objects, places and their interactions. She has had solo exhibitions at

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, and the

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. She has also been included in the 2018

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, the 2013

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, the 2012 New Museum Triennial, the 2015

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and the 2017

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. One of her first well seen art pieces were photographs that she had made with the South African artist, Jean Meeran (''Capa Morada'', 2003). In these photos, Marcelle disappeared into the landscape, dressed in a cape with matching colors so that she and the city elided. In one of her installation pieces, ''Education by Stone'', she pushed numerous rods of chalk, a traditional teaching material, into the school-turned-gallery. This was seen at the

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in 2016. She is the recipient of the 2010 Future Generation Prize. Marcelle applied for the prize when she was 35 and submitted three films which were featured at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Works

* CONFRONTO (2005) * FONTE 193 (2007) * Black hole of b series (2008) * Explanation (2009) * 475 Volver (2009) * Reel to Reel (2009) * This same world over (2009) * R=O (2009) * Evasion Plan #3 (2012) * Project 105: Education by Stone (2016) * Nau (2017) * Verdade ou Desafio (2018)

Exhibitions

* ''No Lone Zone'',

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, UK (2012) * ''The Ungovernables'',

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, New York (2012) * ''Infinite Jest'',

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, Dundee, Scotland (2012) * ''Mythologies By Proxy'', Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2013) * ''Bienal do Mercosul'',

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, Brazil (2013) * ''Many Places at Once'',

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, San Francisco (2014) * ''Slow Future'', Center for Contemporary Art

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, Warsaw (2014) * ''Made by Brazilians'', São Paulo, Brazil (2014) * ''Project 35: The Last Act'',

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, Moscow (2015) * ''Video Art in Latin America: Selections from Brazil'', The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Miami (2016) * ''Art Lessons'',

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, Madrid (2017) * ''Working for the Future Past'',

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(2017) * ''A Conjunction of Factors'',

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, Barcelona (2022)

Awards

* International Prize for Performance, Trento, Italy (2006) * Annual TrAIN Artist in Residency award, Gasworks, London (2009) * Future Generation Art Prize, Pinkchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine (2010)

References

External links

Videos of Marcelle's work
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