DON'T YOU WANT ME BABYYYYY?
Você não me quer beeebêêêê?
by curator Marina Ramos
"After the work series presented in her performance "Janta®" and in her solo show "Fruits of Labor", in which the artist produced ceramics painted in popular food brands motifs, Larissa Fantini dedicates this series of drawings to her fascination with markets as anthropologic and affectionate spaces and the concept of the American dream.
Such drawings are like self-portraits or autobiographical reports, representing the various stores the artist used to attend in the cities she lived throughout her life. Born in Brazil, Larissa spent most of her existence outside her home country, moving from place to place because of her parents' job. In Indonesia, the first country she lived in as a child, the artist recounts her family's visit to the American military base in a rural area. Nearby, at a gas station, she discovered a new world "with streets paved with Lucky Charms cereal and rivers of high-fructose corn syrup" - foods that appeared in the American movies and series she used to watch on cable TV. These were seen in almost every market she visited around the world.
The fascination and nostalgia for these elements are evident in her use of oil pastel and the varnish finish on paper. The crayon material gives an attractive, childlike and almost edible plastic element to the drawings, especially in the piece "Shelf portrait". In this drawing she reproduces a supermarket shelf on a human scale where her most favorite and dearest foods are displayed for the viewer. In the convenience store portraits, Larissa chose to reproduce the facades of different places she used to go throughout her life, in order to buy items for her need and desire. The varnish finishing and the image framing give a photographic element to the drawings, which are fond records in the artist's memory, like a postcard.
The artworks in this exhibition show that both identities of the contemporary individual and society are built based on the concept of desire. Commerce spots and consumer goods, especially food, create relationships of affection (or aversion) in the daily life. When we consume through our eyes and mouths - bodies, in general -, these elements surround us in ways which they infiltrate our memories, tastes and desires through palates, jingles and images. Larissa assumes this condition, and her artworks, in addition to talking about herself, draw the portrait of a society that consumes through its affections".
Marina Ramos
July 2022
COLOCAR LEGENDA
Larissa Barddal Fantini
born in 1995 in Curitiba, Brazil
Education
2013-2017- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Paris College of Art; Paris, France
2022- Bachelor diploma equivalence; Universidade Federal do Paraná
2019-2020- Projeto Permanente de Desenvolvimento e Experimentação em Artes Visuais SESC Paço da Liberdade (certificate scholarship program), Curitiba, Brazil
2018- Núcleo de Artes Visuais SESI/PR (certificate scholarship program); Curitiba, Brazil
2012- Rising Star summer program, Savannah College of art and Design; Savannah, USA
2009-2013- Oil painting specialization at Atelier Veronica Cestau, Montevideo, UY
Solo and two person shows
2022
-DON’T YOU WANT ME BABYYY (Você não me quer beeebêêê?); curated by Marina Ramos, SOMA Galeria; Curitiba, Brazil
-Fruits of Labor: Para o seu Prazer; curated by Renan Archer, SOMA Galeria; Curitiba, Brazil
2021
-Super Bonder (sobre cadeira de fórmica); curated by Marina Ramos, Círculo Galeria; Curitiba, Brazil
2018
-Janta® II; SOMA Galeria; Curitiba, Brazil
-Janta® with Silvina Rodrigues; SOMA Galeria; Curitiba, Brazil
-Selvática with Silvina Rodrigues; curated by Miguel.Miguel.Miguel, Casa Viva; São Paulo, Brazil
2015
-Pillow; Konsthall C (Centrifug) with Elina Bergmark, Stockholm, Sweden
Group shows (Selected)
2022
-Conheça 2022 – Novos nomes das artes visuais em Curitiba; MuMA (Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba), curated by
Renan Archer and Thaylini Luz with artists Ana Beatriz Artigas, Dariane Martiol, Diogo Duda, Douglas Figueira Scirea, Eleonora Gomes, Érica Storer, Everton Leite, Gustavo Magalhães, Larissa Barddal Fantini, Miguel_Miguel.Miguel, Ué Prazeres, Val Gryzb, Vini Maia
-Serralhas; curated by Marina Ramos with artists Claudia Lara, Janete Anderman, Magu Bistafa, SOMA Galeria; Curitiba, Brasil
2021
-Meia Luz; apartment occupation and exhibition for 75m2
-Penumbra; virtual exhibition for 75m2
-Silence; curated by Olivia Abando, virtual exhibition for Grapevine Residency
2020
-Três pedras n’água para um círculo perfeito, SESC Paço da Liberdade, Curitiba, Brazil
-Community; curated by Olivia Abando, virtual exhibition for Grapevine Residency
2019
-Kaktai II; curated by Renata Mocellin, Galpão, Curitiba, Brasil
2018
-Leilao Somatico; curated by Malu Mayer, Coletiza, Curitiba, Brazil
-Kaktai I; curated by Renata Mocellin, Galpão, Curitiba, Brazil
-these here spilt voices; curated by Slanted House, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
-were speaking alone together; Galerie du Crous; Paris, France
2016
-Relational (Im)probability; Espace F15; Paris, France
2014
-Animals, hosted by Paris College of Art, Gallery 102; Paris, France
2012
-Screening of “desmascarada”, SCAD theater; Savannah, USA
-Rising Star, SCAD gallery; Savannah, USA
Teaching
2022- Lecture and workshop at SESC Paço da Liberdade
2022- Guest lecturer for Art C Curitiba
2020- Virtual Workshop for the Escolas Municipais de Curitiba
2019- Lecture and workshop at Boiler Galeria
2018- Lecture and workshop at SOMA Galeria
Publications
2021- present- Poetry Trapper Keeper
2021- Coping, Sand Journal Issue 23 (cover image and inside spread)
2019- Slanted House Issue #3
2018- Queer Surface(s) (Slanted House Issue #2)
2018- PRAGAESCUTA; Publication resulting from the Núcleo de Artes Visuais do SESI PR
2018- Slanted House Issue #1
Residencies, awards and grants
2020-2021 Grapevine Residency, London, UK
2021 Um a Um; digital short film festival curated by Dani Agapito, Curitiba, Brazil
2019-2021 Projeto Permanente de Desenvolvimento e Experimentação em Artes Visuais SESC Paço da Liberdade, granted by the special jury of the Paraná, hosted in Curitiba, Brazil
2018 Núcleo de Artes Visuais SESI/PR; selection by Ana Rocha & Beatriz Lemos, Curitiba, Brazil
2018-2019 Artist in Residence; SOMA Galeria
2013-2017 Selected four times by jury for the PCA end of year exhibition; Paris, France
2013- Rising Star finalist, Savannah College of art and Design; Savannah, USA
Collectives and projects
2021 present- Poetry Trapper Keeper – weekly poetry publication Co-created with poet Kelly Mullins
2020 present- 75m2 – artstic develepment platform and project Co-Created with curator Marina Ramos
2017-2019 The Slanted House Collective – queer artists’ and writers’ project based in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France
born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1995 but only returned to live and work in the city in 2018. In the meantime she has lived in Telêmaco Borba, PR (Brazil) , Coqueiral, ES (Brazil), Porto Seguro, BA (Brazil), Indonesia, China, Uruguay, and France. She graduated in May 2017, from Paris College of Art with a bachelors of fine arts. Larissa is an artist, writer and teacher. She has exhibited her work in Brazil, France, Germany, and Sweden. Her work encompasses politics, popular culture, themes of the domestic, and intimacy, amongst others. She is the co-creator of 75m2, an independent art platform.
