We are pleased to announce the representation of Jeane Terra (MG, 1975), an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and develops works in painting, sculpture, photography and video.
The artist’s works bring out the subjectivities of memory, the nuances of transience and the wreckage of a time, in works with an intense visual charge that reflect on urban erasure and the effects of human action on the landscape, the climate and life on earth.
Often self-referential, Jeane’s works weave a panorama of the main issues of our time. Thus, from the demolition of the house she lived in as a child and with an aesthetic approach to the baroque of Minas Gerais, the artist travels through cities and places on the verge of disappearing. These are works that move between records of a bygone era, the corrosion of time and the urgency of the contemporary.
Jeane constructs images using unconventional materials and surfaces, such as glass, clay and pau a pique, among others. As in the works in which she uses “paint skin”, a technique she developed from a mixture of acrylic paint, binder and marble dust, obtaining a chromatic fabric which, composed of multiple, thin layers, takes on the appearance of skin. The artist uses the “skins” of paint which, cut into a myriad of small squares, make up the grid that structures her paintings – using the cross-stitch technique inherited from her maternal grandmother – which are glued to the surface of the canvas. A kind of body-painting, constituted between immemorial embroidery and the instantaneity of the pixel.
As critic and curator Agnaldo Farias points out, Jeane Terra “proposes that all architecture is essentially self-destructive, that every construction brings with it its dissolution, that everything we do is ephemeral, and that our gestures are characterized by negativity, even if we insist on valuing the opposite”.
Jeane Terra’s works are part of the Inhotim Institute Collection, the Rio Art Museum Collection and the Centro Cultural dos Correios Rio de Janeiro Collection. The artist has had solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, the USA, England and Italy and, in 2023, was the Brazilian winner and one of the finalists for the annual EFG Latin America Art Award, in association with the ArtNexus Foundation in Bogotá.
