Rebecca Sharp

Rebecca Sharp’s artistic practice explores the intersection of perception, memory, and imagination through a unique blend of pictorial and meditative processes. Her work investigates subtle, often overlooked planes of existence, creating immersive visual worlds where vivid-hued abysses coexist with delicate forms and surreal compositions. Sharp’s paintings function as coded messages, emerging from both internal reflection and engagement with the external environment, often appearing instinctively as the theme develops. Each canvas is treated as a site of creation and intervention in invisible universes, capturing the interplay between formation and dissolution. The paintings serve as records of transient, transformative moments, functioning as logbooks of movement, memory, and imaginative exploration. Sharp’s approach bridges the metaphysical and the everyday, transforming ordinary forms and spaces into contemplative, otherworldly environments. Through her poetic and reflective practice, Sharp invites viewers into meditative realms that encourage introspection, offering subtle narratives that unfold gradually. Her work emphasizes the tension between presence and absence, evanescence and permanence, allowing audiences to engage deeply with the intangible dimensions of human experience. ...

Founded in São Paulo in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins is a space for research, documentation and presentation of contemporary artistic production. It proposes collaborative curatorial strategies that foster dialogue between different generations and different cultural perspectives. One of its guiding principles is the encouragement of research-oriented conceptualist practices characterized by critical, even subversive, approaches. Since its inauguration, the gallery has developed a special program around the investigation of artistic productions carried out during the Brazilian military period – more specifically from the 1970s and 1980s. It promotes a historical revision of processes grounded on strong intellectual resistance, audacity and commitment to art and which transformed the artistic practice in the country, but nonetheless were neglected throughout the last decades. By integrating research and practice that confront the contemporary scene by means of its exhibition program, the gallery encourages the revival of the debate that conceives of artistic actions as contact zones for the exercise of aesthetic, social and political change. In 2020 the gallery opened its second exhibition space, in Brussels, aiming to expand our presence in Europe and to develop a multidisciplinary program that will foster connections between our artists and Brazilian art practices in an international context. ...