“Restless”

The studio routine is the starting point for much of Paloma Bosquê’s research. In this environment, the artist freely handles and combines materials that are unusual in the vocabulary of sculpture to create spatial compositions of varying shapes and scales. Bosquê develops specific methods for joining, superimposing and joining the materials she chooses to work with, avoiding any more definitive form of interaction – fitting instead of welding. The constant search for a possible balance and a consensual interaction between the elements in the space guides an important part of the artist’s production.

Brass, felt, bronze, charcoal, pitch, beeswax, ox intestines, handmade paper, coffee sieves and wool are used indiscriminately. The origin or potential symbolic meaning of each of the items used by the artist is less important than their physical presence. It is through the relationships between texture, weight and the natural transformation of organic materials that she constructs a territory of extreme visual delicacy.

Each composition is unique: the felts and looms are handmade and adapt to each choice of the artist, the coffee sieves bear signs of use - each one ages in its own time - and no two goat skins are the same. Bosquê's focus is on the transience of matter and impermanence. His works remind us of how fragile are the agreements that sustain everything we consider permanent or irrevocable.

His recent solo shows include "Dark Matter", Blum and Poe, Tokyo, Japan (2020); "In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day", Mendes Wood DM, New York, USA (2019); "Inventory", Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium (2018); "The Hollow and the Amendment", White Pavilion, City Museum, Lisbon (2017); "Field", Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2016); The "Uncomfortable", Pivô, São Paulo (2015). His works have also been included in institutional group shows such as "Brasile. Il coltello nella carne", Pac - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018); "Coimbra Biennial", Coimbra (2017); "Mycorial Theatre", Pivô, São Paulo (2016); "Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist", The Jewish Museum, New York (2016); United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (2015).