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Helena Barbagelata

Portrait

BORN IN 1991, HELENA BARBAGELATA CAME FROM A MIXED BACKGROUND. AS A MODEL, SHE TRAVELLED AND LIVED ALL AROUND THE WORLD. THESE RICH AND DIVERSE CULTURAL EXPERIENCES DEEPLY INFLUENCED THE UNLIMITED AND PARALLEL DIMENSIONS THAT COEXIST IN HER ART.
For an artist like Barbagelata, art is an open dialogue with the world, where the other side of the mirror reflects a sphere of experiences in which the physical and the abstract coexist harmoniously. It is as if a unique environment of perceptions emerged, mixing the real and the oniric, the lived and the imagined – an intersection between the palpable and the invented, where we perceive the succession of life’s many layers.

Artworks

The Moving Limit I Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit II Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit III Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit IV Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit V Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

Artworks

The Moving Limit I Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit II Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

The Moving Limit III Woven chenille 60x90cm 2022 The Moving Limit is a series that questions the definition of physical space as a bounded concept, replacing it with the place of indefinition and perpetual motion. Of space as a mathematical transversal that intercepts in its plasticity the physical objects of the world and all its events, and that has a relative position and direction.

Professional education / experience

Helena Barbagelata (1991). PhD in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca. Model, multidisciplinary artist, researcher and activist. She has received several awards from the Onassis Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Greek Government, Università di Trieste, Universitat de València, Universitat de Barcelona, Premio Internazionale di Poesia e Teatro Castello di Duino, among others. Member of the Society of Jewish Artists (SoJa) and the Organization for the Democratization of the Visual Arts (OBDK). Her works combine painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, sound art and printmaking. She held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, South America, Australia and the United States. Her most recent projects include: “ZENAM”, Passover Exhibition 2021, Israeli Art Market, March-June, 2021. ART/HELP. Expanding the Limits of the Visible”, curated by Alexandra Danilova, Saint Petersburg Repin Academy of Fine Arts and the HSE Art and Design School. Muzeon Art Center, Moscow, Russia, 2021, “World of Estrangement”, Supersonic, curated by Dasha Birukova, with the support of Atelier Concorde, Lisbon City Council, “COLIBRÍ”, Totomej Sanili (ed.), Fondo de Conservación el Triunfo (FONCET), Artac (International Association of Mexican Artists with the support of UNESCO). Museo Zacatlán (MUZA), Mexico City, Mexico, 2021, “SPLIT OPEN – IDENTITY, CONNECTIVITY & COMMUNITY”, Kulturschöpfer, Green Hill Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2021, “Project Lazaretta: Digital Stories from the Old and New World” , curated by Filia Milidaki, Eyes Walk Festival, CulturePolis, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Greek Government, 2021.