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Renata Pelegrini lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil). With a BA in Language Teaching and Education from the University of São Paulo, she started her artistic practice in calligraphy by studying the classic alphabets while living in New York (USA). Later she widened her practice to new gestures at the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana in her two year stay in Milan (Italy). Renata got her BA in Fine Arts in 2010, dedicating her career to painting and drawing, oriented by the Brazilian artist Paulo Pasta ever since. Living in different geographies has caused the investigation of the architecture and of the structure of the place to strongly become one of the lines of her study, bringing an architectonic lexicon to her work in canvas, linen and paper. Pelegrini is part of the Brazilian collective Pigmento (and since 2016 has been an acting artist member at MoMA (USA). Renata has been…

Olavo Amado was born in São Tomé, where he lives and works. A self-taught artist, in 2002 he began his career in São Tomé at Espaço Teia d'Arte where he collaborated and participated in various artistic encounters. Amado did artistic residency in New York (OMI- International Art Center, 2015), Amsterdam (2011) and Paris (2007) “In a constant movement, I make the environment that surrounds me the focus of my inspiration. Through images, its construction and deconstruction, and the reflection about the present, allows me to permanently establish the connection between the past and the future. By transposing and transfiguring images into graphic compositions I follow the labyrinth theory of creation, which is the process of most of his works, crossing lines, strokes and colors till their dematerialization in abstract expressions, reflecting multiple worlds and multiple identities in a constant search.”

Zhao Qian is a visual artist living in San Francisco and China. His series "Offcut, the edge" has exhibited in 001 Gallery (Rome, Italy), Reminders Photography Stronghold Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) and Lianzhou Photo Festival (Lianzhou, China). His work has appeared in group exhibitions in Rathfarnham Castle (Dublin, Ireland), French Pavilion (Zagreb, Croatia), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, USA), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome, Italy), Zhejiang Art Musuem (Hangzhou, China), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Dalian Art Museum (Dalian, China) and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, USA). Zhao Qian has also shown in Unseen Photo Fair, Singapore International Photo Festival, Athens Photo Festival, Copenhagen Photo Festival and FOTOFESTIWAL. Zhao Qian has received fellowships for residencies such as HANGAR/Artist Research Center (2018), Homesession (2018), The Cow House Studio, Vermont Studio Center and Kala Art Institute. In 2017 his first monograph "Offcut, the edge" got published by Jiazazhi Press.

Andreia Santana (1991, Lisbon), lives and works between Lisbon and New York. Andreia helds a BA degree in Fine Arts in ESAD - School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha and participated in the Independent Study Program in Visual Arts from Maumaus/Lumiar Cité in Lisbon. Since 2013, she has participated in several artistic residency programs, namely, Residency Unlimited in New York with a fellowship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Panal 360 in Buenos Aires, Mieszkanie Gepperta Residency Gallery at Wroclaw, Poland and Gasworks / Triangle Network at Hangar in Lisbon. She won the NOVO BANCO Revelação Prize in 2016 and the Sculpture Prize D. Fernando II, exhibiting her work regularly in Portugal and abroad, highlighting the exhibitions ‘Leaves of Absence’ at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2017); 'New Skin, Old Stone' at Old School, cur. by Susana Pomba, Lisbon (2017); 'The Lobster Loop' at MONITOR Gallery, Lisbon (2017) ‘Pousio / Fallow’…

May 2018