Past
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Regina Parra: Pagan
Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo 1 Apr - 13 Aug 2023 Barbarians, idolaters, profanes, laywomen, unfaithful, seers, or simply pagans. Since antiquity, Western imagination has found many ways to characterize women, their bodies, their attitudes, and their sexuality. In a men’s world, the feminine has been and still is repeatedly posited as a source of deviations from the norm, and therefore... Read more -
Regina Parra: The Deviant
Galeria Jaqueline Martins Brussels 5 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Regina Parra was born and raised in Brazil — a country with a misogynistic and sexist culture, where women are executed daily for being women. In addition to the risk to their lives and the physical violence, the psychological violence – which leaves no marks – hurts the dignity of... Read more -
Tactics of Disappearance
Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo 19 Feb - 16 May 2021 Curated by Nathalia Lavigne, the exhibition deals with the notion of disappearance as a strategic - and necessary - practice in the current context of authoritarian discourses and mechanisms of surveillance of imperceptible technologies. Regina Parra's practice addresses issues related to disappearance in the social-networks and self-representation through the reproduction... Read more -
2020 Loop Festival
Galeria Senda, Barcelona 10 - 30 Nov 2020 In collaboration with the Galeria Millan of Sao Paulo, Galeria Senda will present Capitão do Mato (2016) a video art work by Brazilian artist Regina Parra. The piece will be screened at the gallery from November 10 to November 30, as part of the 2020 City Screen program of Loop... Read more
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Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil
The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York 14 Feb - 3 Apr 2020 Curated by Tatiane Schilaro and Nathalia Lavigne, and organized by AnnexB_NY, the exhibition Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil addresses the present transnational wave of authoritarianism by featuring a number of art practices that have responded to oppression in Brazil. Since the rise of a conservative political movement in... Read more -
Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000
MASP_Museum of Sao Paulo 23 Aug - 11 Nov 2019 Ophelia is a fictional character in the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) between the 16th and 17th centuries, whose name gives title to the performance and installation of Ana Mazzei and Regina Parra. The figure of Ophelia became a symbol of a fragile and irrational femininity, being used... Read more -
Sertao: 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art
MAM_Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo 17 Aug - 15 Nov 2019 With its 36th edition, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Panorama of Brazilian Art, celebrating the vitality of that which is one of the major shows of the Brazilian circuit and reaffirming its mission to stage projects that celebrate the multiplicity of... Read more -
Winnie
Instituto Tomie Ohtake 5 Aug - 8 Sep 2019 Actions characterized by repetition and impotence and bodies in a state of exhaustion are elements that Regina Parra’s work, whose trajectory is marked by references to theater, shares with the work of Irish playwright and writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Parra’s production includes performance, video, installation, lighting and, mainly, paintings. Its... Read more
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Bacchae
Galeria Millan 21 Mar - 21 Apr 2019 Of the nine paintings in the exhibition of Regina Parra, at Galeria Millan, in São Paulo, eight are female bodies in cutouts that leave us wondering if they are suffering bodies or orgasmic bodies. Title of the exhibition: “Bacante”. The bacchantes, followers of the cult of Dionysus, who of ciated... Read more -
Regina Parra: Chance
Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo 16 Feb 2019 - 19 Jun 2020 The neon is commonly used to hold attention. Used for short and direct phrase advertising, its writing light is a visual summons. Regina Parra uses this mechanism, and her poetic form uses the same structure. The quick phrase “The Great Chance” written in red light is an enigmatic invitation. Thus,... Read more -
Lascivious
FAMA Museum 15 Dec 2018 - 9 Feb 2019 In December 2017 the artist Regina Parra starts to look at a series of images of the Salpêtrière Hospital by the scientist Jean-Martin Charcot in the 19th century. In them are archived a technology of male violence that contributed to the invention of a symptom on the patients. The symptom... Read more -
Brazil: Knife in the Flesh
PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan 3 Jul - 30 Sep 2018 The stance of resistance or affirmation is in the video Capitão do Mato (2016). Filmed in the Amazon rainforest, it has as its starting point the bird of the species Lipaugus vociferans, whose scientific name means “dark screamer”. Popularly known as “captain of the forest”, this bird inhabits a large... Read more
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Why are you trembling, woman?
Galeria Millan 21 Jul - 20 Aug 2016 Read more -
Sights & Sounds
The Jewish Museum New York 5 Feb - 30 Jun 2016 New York, NY – The Jewish Museum’s exhibition series Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video concludes with a five-month presentation of highlighted works, featuring one film from each of the 25 participating countries—on view from February 5 to June 30, 2016. As an overview of the series, this presentation... Read more -
Regina Parra: It is Possible, But Not Right Now
Pivô Sao Paulo 25 Oct - 20 Dec 2014 Regina Parra’s solo exhibition 'É Possível, Mas Não Agora' occupies several exhibition spaces at Pivô, incorporating video, installation and painting by artist Regina Parra who, over recent months, has worked in dialogue with Ana Maria Maia, the exhibition’s curator. The works displayed merge the frontiers between reality and desire, inclusion... Read more
