Tânia Bandeira Duarte
Portugal
Tânia Bandeira Duarte (Caldas da Rainha, 1974) lives and works in Berlin. She studied sculpture at the FBAUP and the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 2006 she was artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Centre in the USA and in 2004 she won the Celpa/Vieira da Silva Revelation Plastic Arts Prize. He has been exhibiting regularly since 1997. Her solo exhibitions include Melancolia, Galeria 24b - Arte Contemporânea, Oeiras (2005).
In her work, the nature of phenomena and the complex structures that arise from everyday relationships with things and others are analysed through the specific processes of drawing, understood in a conceptual rather than pictorial way. Notions of space, nature, perception and representation, melancholy and the passage of time are explored, and sensitive structures are represented through repetitive, rational and mechanical processes, in an individual meditation on the state of people and phenomena.
In her work, the nature of phenomena and the complex structures that arise from everyday relationships with things and others are analysed through the specific processes of drawing, understood in a conceptual rather than pictorial way. Notions of space, nature, perception and representation, melancholy and the passage of time are explored, and sensitive structures are represented through repetitive, rational and mechanical processes, in an individual meditation on the state of people and phenomena.
