Juliana Notari

In her visual and theoretical research, Juliana Notari has created a body of works that face their singularities, moving between biography, the confessional, catharsis, or relational practices. With a multidisciplinary approach, she works with the most diverse languages: performance, installation, intervention, video, photography, drawing, and object. For years, the artist has been conducting research on gender and sexism. Questions regarding the presence of the female body as opposed to a society that prides itself on virility and phallocentrism have always been part of his poetics. However, in addition to issues related to the feminine and feminism, her work also encompasses issues related to certain important themes: birth and death, sexuality, the relationship between fiction and confession, trauma, relationships of complicity/testimony and encounters between animality and humanity. In his work, these themes are always crossed by the question of sexuality and death. “Diva”, 2020. vulva wound Intervention in the landscape, Reinforced concrete, resin, and pigment. It is a “prospecting-hole-sculpture” embedded in a land devastated by sugarcane monoculture and its social traumas. A deep abscess, the work reveals the historical violence on female bodies that continue to be daily injured in many – and, depending on their color or gender, in different and asymmetrical ways – just like Gaya’s body, our Mother Earth. In addition to these bodies, Diva brings to light the immeasurable colonial traumas that, against invisibility, continue to fight for reparation. While wounded, the Diva herself continues to re-enact – since she turns over open wounds – the racial inequalities on which Brazil is based. Juliana Notari,1975, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil where she lives and works.