BAD +: Curated by Yellow Over Purple fet. Tiffany Bouelle, Lilah Fowler & Tulio Pinto

• Tiffany Bouelle Tiffany Bouelle was born in 1992 in France. Of Franco-Japanese origin, she received a double education, including a Japanese heritage of rigor and tradition. She grew up in a creative environment. Surrounded by craftsmen, her curiosity for the know-how and the gesture develops. Her passions for drawing and calligraphy, taught to her by her grandfather, became the founding element of her practice at an early age. She studied at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré in Paris. Today her practice has become multidisciplinary and is declined through painting, drawing but also performance. The artist's work tends to isolate a pure and unique gesture that stems from a state or that symbolizes a feeling. Tiffany Bouelle places emotion at the heart of her creations. She spiritualizes the movement and lets her body materialize (interpret) it. I will remove the () and write it materialize and interpret it with a sure and continuous line that springs up to fill the space of the support. For five years, Tiffany Bouelle has been making portraits by synesthesia, that is to say that the story that stemmed from the interview was translated by a neurological phenomenon into an artistic gesture. 

These stories of women from various backgrounds have participated in the construction of the femininity and its image in the artist who now draws the chapters of his own history as her maternity or her childbirth.

 Creating and feeding a virtuous circle of self-construction / work creation, Tiffany Bouelle continues to define herself on a daily basis and to refine her technique, notably through the numerous collaborations she develops with other artists, but also with brands, which offer her a constantly renewed field of experimentation and visibility.

Her work has been exhibited in France, at La monnaie de Paris (France - 2021), at Arts et Métiers de Paris (France - 2022), at Jardin des métiers d'Art et du Design de Sèvre (France - 2023), but also at Gallery JIB, Tokyo (Japan - 2018), at the Parallèle Space in Hong Kong (Taiwan -2020), at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence (Italy - 2020), at the UBP, Monaco, (Monte-Carlo - 2020) or at the Pakistan Art Forum (Pakistan - 2023).

Lilah Fowler, born in London, UK in 1981, is of British-Japanese descent and she currently lives and works in London, UK. She completed her BA (Hons) in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2005 and received her MA in Sculpture from Royal College of Art, London in 2008.
Fowler’s work examines the common, mutable languages that inform how we interpret our surroundings. Sculptures, images and other elements draw on sources that include the planning of natural and urban environments and their architectural design values, combining into responsive and intricate installations. Recent works have involved collaborations with biochemists, quantum physicists, computer programmers, mathematicians and weavers. For her most recent body of work she has spent several research periods in the South West of the USA, the Lake District and Dungeness, UK, including residencies at Montello Foundation, Nevada, USA (2016) and Joshua Tree Desert Highlands, California, USA (2013). 

Selected exhitbitions :
‘Code Clay, Data Dirt’ at Firstsite, Colchester; ‘nth nature’ at Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn and Assembly Point, London; ‘Bauhaus’ at Frauenmuseum Bonn; ‘Sie Machen Was Sie Wollen’ at Varna City Gallery, Bulgaria, curated by Mélange, Cologne; and ‘PURE LIGHT’ at Vasarely Museum, Budapest, curated by Dora Mauer.

Tulio Pinto is a Brazilian artist, born in 1974 and he currently lives and works in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He graduated in 2009 from UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with a degree in visual arts, specialising in sculpture. 

Pinto is interested in all contingent, changeable, temporary materials - an approach that could seem to contradict the parameters of accepted norms in sculpting, if it was not for the long tradition that came from Russian Constructivism. He does not customarily use traditional tools in his pieces, nor does he sculpt or shape anything. Instead, Pinto obtains the pieces in their natural condition and establishes an unstable interaction with different factors, such as weight, density and dimension. He transforms differences into a sculpting result that is novel, innovative and unexpected. The constant target that the artist reinforces, is the materialisation of the invisible force of gravity - something we feel, but do not see, despite the fact that it overpowers all and everyone in the world.

Selected exhibitions:

Nova Escultura Brasileira at La Caixa Cultura RJ in 2011, Brasil; Ground at Barógallery in 2013, Brasil; The Vancouver Biennale in 2014, Canada; Onloaded at Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art in 2015, United States; among others. MARGS (Muséum of Art Rio Grande del Sul) 2020, Materail Resilience at UN-SPACED in Paris in 2022.

Collections :
Phoenix College Art Collection | Phoenix - Arizona - USA ; Mesa Community College Gallery | Mesa - Arizona - USA ; Senac SP - São Bernardo do Campo | SP - Brésil ; Musée d'art contemporain de Paraná, Curitiba, Brésil ; Fondation culturelle Itajaí - Itajaí - SC - Brésil ; Institut Figueiredo Ferraz - Ribeirão Preto - SP - Brésil ; Usina Cultural Energisa | João Pessoa - Pb - Brésil ; Musée d'art contemporain de Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre - RS - Brésil ; Marco - Musée d'art contemporain de Campo Grande, Campo Grande - MS - Brésil ; Musée national de Brasília - Brasília - DF - Brésil ; Musée d'art de Ribeirão Preto - Ribeirão Preto - SP - Brésil ; Galerie d'art municipale Aldo Locatelli - Porto Alegre - RS - Brésil, Marta Herford Museum, Germany, MARGS- Porto Alegre -RS- Brésil, MACS - Sao Paulo - Brésil. Túlio a des œuvres dans plusieurs collections privées au Brésil.