Paloma Bosquê: Matter

Paloma Bosquê’s work starts off with investigating matter in transformation and its tactile dimension — texture, density, balance — to combine organic and inorganic elements in forms and signs questioning the limits between natural and artificial. Created through material such as stone, plaster, wool, cotton fiber, bee wax, collagen casing, and various metals, Bosquê’s sculptures and collage are the basis for Matéria (Editora Cobogó). The bilingual edition features, in addition to images of the artist’s works, an essay by Colombian curator and writer Catalina Lozano and a conversation between the artist and the São Paulo curator Fernanda Brenner.

In her interview to Fernanda Brenner, the artist explains that she’s also interested in the tangible aspect of the tactile dimension: corporification as an apprehensible part of the world. For her, the materiality of bodies offers a glimpse at the mystery that composes us.

The publication also features, throughout its pages, short writing by the artist, in dialogue with her works. Through 2020, the rhythm change imposed by the pandemic made Paloma Bosquê reread old writing, write new pieces and organize them. According to Catalina Lozano, Paloma’s work escapes legibility, directing itself to other functions in our body, but “the fluidity of her written language runs in parallel to the way her works take shape, grow, create space, or mix with one another.”

About the artist
Paloma Bosquê was born in Garça, São Paulo, in 1982. Her artistic practice starts with investigating materiality to question the place of the visible as defining element for reality. In her sculptures and installations, matter is an access channel to a dimension beyond language. Her recent exhibitions include noite não noite sim, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2020), Dark Matter, Blum and Poe, Tokyo (2020), In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2019), Inventário, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2018), O Oco e a Emenda, Museu da cidade, Lisbon (2017), Campo, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2016) e O Incômodo, Pivô, São Paulo (2015).

About the authors
Catalina Lozano was born in Bogota, in 1979. She’s an independent researcher and curator living in Mexico City. The analysis of colonial narratives and the deconstruction of the modern division between nature and culture are starting points for many of her recent curatorial and editorial works. She’s the Kadist program director in Latin America.

Fernanda Brenner was born in São Paulo, in 1986. She’s a curator and writer. Founder and artistic director of Pivô, São Paulo, an exhibition space where she works with artists from various contexts and generations to promote shows, commissions and artistic residencies. She’s also a contributor editor for Frieze magazine and a Latin American consultor for Kadist in San Francisco and Paris.

Specifications
Title Paloma Bosquê: Matéria
[Paloma Bosquê: Matter]
Artist Paloma Bosquê
Authors Catalina Lozano and Fernanda Brenner
Translation Adriana Francisco and Julia de Souza
Language Portuguese/English
Page count 200
Design Studio Temp
ISBN 978-65-5691-053-6
Format Softcover
Size 17 x 24 cm
Year 2022