Rebeca Carapiá

Rebeca Carapiá was born in Cidade Baixa in Salvador da Bahia and graduated with a degree in visual arts from the Federal University of Bahia. Through sculpture, copper wire on canvas, drawing, installation, printmaking, texts and objects, her research seeks to create a cosmology around the conflicts of the norms of language and the body, in addition to expanding a geopolitical debate on memory, environmental racism, economies of uncertainty, ancestral technologies, sexual and gender dissidence, and the power relations between discourse and speech. In 2020, Carapiá opened up her notebooks in Como colocar ar nas palavras (“How to Put Air Into Words”), title of her first solo exhibition, held at Galeria Leme in São Paulo. Among other projects, she has participated in the Veículo Sur residency program, the PlusAfroT residency in Villa Waldberta, Germany, and the II Residency Program with the Valongo International Image Festival.