Bruna Canepa

Bruna Canepa formally trained as an architect before focusing more heavily on her art practice. Working in mixed media, Canepa creates collages on paper which examine the unseen social structures which are built into urban environments. Combining graphic architectural drawings with illustrative figures, decals of images of antiquity, such as heads or busts of goddesses are added to the mix, as well as contemporary iconography of logos and branding slogans. Traversing divergent techniques and timescales, her works explore the different eras present within urban architectures, whilst her experimentations with scale shed light on the behaviour or influence of forces such as capitalism or the patriarchy within the city. Canepa continues to fuse her practical skills she garnered at the architectural school Escola Da Cidade with her more intuitive work as a designer and artist. ...

Ballon Rouge began as a nomadic gallery in September of 2017. In our first two years we put up exhibitions in Istanbul, London, Los Angeles, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Paris, and New York. Each of the cities we visited was stewarded by a ‘collective member’ - a curator who introduced us to artists and to their respective city’s art scene. In March of 2019 we made Brussels our home city, inaugurating our permanent space. While we will continue to do shows abroad alongside our collective members, our primary location is now Brussels. Besides our own exhibitions, the space in Brussels sometimes hosts invited international galleries to show with us in exchange for a show of ours at theirs - a further continuation of our ethos of collaboration and collectivity. So far we have collaborated or will soon collaborate with Hannah Barry Gallery (London); Melange (Cologne); Galerist (Istanbul); Gallery Artbeat, (Tbilisi); the Pill (Istanbul); Pi Artworks (Istanbul, London); Vitrine (London, Basel). ...