Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo and Chanel Culture Fund launch new residency for women artists

"In her thesis, The Time of Colour, Dos Santos presents her research on the blue pigmentation of the Clitoria ternatea flower, a central element in her work. Dos Santos encourages viewers to observe the "performative" qualities of the pigment, which "fades and opens a sensitive space for reflection on transformation and impermanence", she tells The Art Newspaper. The forthcoming residency will provide Dos Santos with opportunity to further her botanical studies and explore new technologies that can contribute to her investigations of the flower."

""I'm interested in capturing its sound and scent, expanding its presence into other sensory dimensions," Dos Santos says. The residency will build on her research into texts like The Nature of Brazilian Colours by Maibe Maroccolo-who developed handmade watercolour paints from yerba mate, Brazilian indigo, Catuaba bark and other local plants. The work of artists like Wolfgang Laib (with his use of yellow pollen) and Aboubakar Fofana (with his indigo blue) have also been important references."

Juliana dos Santos is the inaugural recipient of a residency founded by Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Chanel Culture Fund. She researches plants and pigments native to Brazil and explores the sensory experience of colour through painting, installation, video, performance and other media. Her doctoral thesis, The Time of Colour, centers on the blue pigmentation of the Clitoria ternatea flower and the pigment's performative qualities that fade and suggest transformation and impermanence. The residency will support further botanical study and the use of new technologies to capture sound and scent and expand colour into multisensory dimensions. Influences include Maibe Maroccolo, Wolfgang Laib and Aboubakar Fofana.

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