Art with mixed media saved Brenda in seclusion and now delights friends – Arts

Architect and interior designer, Brenda Meireles Postaue, 28 years old, occupies different places with her artistic perception. Since she was a child, she has been painting canvases, but it was during the pandemic that this work with works of art gained strength.

Mixed technique, oil pastel chalk on paper, drawings on iron sandpaper, sculptures and even installations. Since 2020, Brenda has experimented with different ways of externalizing her art depending on the urgency to create.

Although she only identified as an artist during the pandemic, she says that her relationship with art goes back a long way. “I have been painting pictures since I was very little, influenced by my mother, who is an excellent artist. When my brother and I were little, she always provided drawing and painting materials for us to have fun,” she says.

Introduction to artistic courses, drawing and others were always present in her life during her training period. But, with the demands of adult life’, Brenda became disconnected from this artistic side that was only awakened again during the confinement of the health crisis.

“It was during the pandemic confinement, when meetings became more difficult, that I saw drawing and painting as my bridge to communicate more deeply with people through social media”, he states.

Over the last four years, the artist has brought part of everything that surrounds her to the canvas. Seeing herself as a ‘tool’ that respects how the external imposes itself, Brenda explains how her creative processes work.

“They usually start from very small things that I find in the landscape, as if they were enlargements of sections of a building, a street, a specific scene. I bring things that happen to me, dreams, representations of emotions with shapes, colors and textures,” she says.

Using different materials, Brenda creates in a practical way where each situation demands a different element. Since she turned to her artistic career, she has participated in the exhibition “Displacement as a ritual”, the NAUS project and the ‘Petrolatum’ exhibition. Her main works are “Tempesta”, “Eupestre”, “We and the Tucanos”, “Afeto”, “Água Boa”, “Rasgo”.

She answers what moves her as an artist. “Aesthetically, I seek to blur as much as possible the delimitation of the elements that led me to the urgency to create, in a way that I still recognize them, but that leaves the observer with complete freedom to place their own borders and meanings”, he concludes.

Ships 2024 – Curated by Elias de Aquino, ‘Displacement as Ritual’ is an exhibition that starts from the principle of travel and geographical difference to think about changes, transformations and new perspectives on an artist’s production. Naus is a NAUS artistic immersion and curatorial experimentation program, which will encourage and carry out research and production circuits, conversations and public training and exhibition proposals during the year 2024.

The exhibition takes place at Caixa de Barro – Casulo Espaço de Cultura e Arte – Reinaldo Bianchi, 398, Parque Alvorada, in Dourados.

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