Geraldo Queiroz Art Gallery in Uberlândia presents the exhibition “Match!”, by Júnia Azevedo.
Exhibition presents an unprecedented series of portraits inspired by online dating platforms.
With critical text by Renato Rezende, works can be seen from 12 from June to 9 August, with free admission.
The Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism, through the Uberlândia Integrated Arts and Cultures Directorate (MG), presents the exhibition “Match!”, by Rio artist Júnia Azevedo.
With critical text by Renato Rezende, the exhibition is on display in 12 from June to 9 August, at the Geraldo Queiroz Art Gallery. “Match!” presents ten never-before-seen portraits in graphite on paper, where the artist records how middle-aged men, mostly white, straight and urban, introduce themselves on a virtual dating site.
Between the simple and the ironic, the set ends up revealing symbolic aspects of our society. Carried out through notice, the exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday, from 12:00 to 6:00 pm, with free admission.
The project was approved through a notice from the Uberlândia Department of Culture and Tourism.
On a dating app, a candidate has just a few seconds to sell themselves: a good photo, a couple of sentences and that's all. In a drag of fingers, the suitor may be summarily dismissed.
“Based on this mechanic, I started researching how middle-aged men present themselves. What photos choose, what they say about you, what they think might be attractive to a woman? This is how the portraits of the Match series were born!”, reveals the artist.
According to Renato Rezende, the result are works that provoke us, destabilizing us between repudiation and tenderness, between the aesthetic and the ethical, between the tragic and the laughable.
“This is the artist’s greatest asset. The work of Junia is feminist, without being moralistic; it's critical, without being simplistic; is perverse, without being sadistic. Just seemingly simple, the works on display are mature, complex. Shake the patriarchy, with your ironic approach, but at the same time they work like a mirror, causing us discomfort by making us think about our own ridiculousness.”, explains.
With the exhibition, the Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism of Uberlândia intends to offer space and visibility to the production of visual arts artists from other locations, promoting artistic-cultural exchange with the local community.
About Júnia Azevedo
Born in Rio de Janeiro, graduated in Social Communication from PUC-RJ. Acted for 11 years in the creative field, in advertising agencies.
He was a marketing manager and worked with corporate communications. His experience in the field of visual art reflects his professional experience in this universe.
In 2014, released the novel O Ser-se (Ed. Circuit), whose reflections unfolded into a three-dimensional work of art. Took the intensive Creative Process course, com Charles Watson, at the school of Visual Arts of Parque Lage (RJ), in 2013.
In, 2018, started the project monitoring program with the artist and curator Lia do Rio, and joined the 3D art workshop, coordinated by João Carlos Goldberg, no Parque Lage.
Exhibited at the Correios de Niterói Cultural Space, no Midrash Cultural Center, participated in Casa Tato (SP) and the Oma Gallery art workshop (SP), among others.
Her artistic research is a reflection on stereotypes linked to the feminine, including issues related to the body, behavior and imaginary.
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His repertoire includes themes such as the idealization of a pink world and the stimulation of desire and consumption through the infantilization of adults., of early eroticization and the imposition of standards of beauty and behavior.
Match! is the artist's second solo show.
About Renato Rezende
Art theorist and independent curator, He has a master's and doctorate in Contemporary Art and Culture from the UERJ Institute of Arts.
Among his most important curators are Artevismo Hoje (table, 2015), Glossary of proper names (Alex Cerveny, 2015), Cassino (Heleno Bernardi, 2017) and Flávio de Carvalho expedition member (like Amanda Bonan, 2018).
About the Geraldo Queiroz Art Gallery – House of culture
The Geraldo Queiroz Art Gallery was named in honor of the artist from Uberlandia, painter, self-taught and accomplished muralist.
His work consists of drawings, paintings and panels made into mosaics installed in several homes in São Paulo and Uberlândia.
Some of them are listed as part of the city's Historical and Cultural Heritage.
The use of the Gallery is made by means of a notice, carried out by the Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism.
The notice is launched annually for local artists and artists from other centers.
Service
contemporary art exhibition
Title: Match!
Artist: Jennifer Azevedo
critical text: Renato Rezende
Local: Geraldo Queiroz Art Gallery – House of culture
Time: Monday to Friday, from 12:00 to 6:00 pm
Exhibition period: from 12 from June to 9 August 2024
End: Coronel Carneiro Square, 89 – Fundinho – Uberlândia (MG)
Free entry
