Exercício de declinação

The work "Exercício de Declinação" (Exercise of Decline) starts from a set of works created under the influence of Ana Hatherly, for three exhibitions held between 2020 and 2023, with Mafalda Santos and Susana Gaudêncio. There are, perhaps, connections that have deepened over the years. Ana Hatherly is one of the artists who taught me to embrace image-writing or drawing-writing without concern for traditional disciplinary boundaries and immune to others' expectations. When I was younger, incorporating this freedom, in her vocation for the plurality of languages ​​and media, was not immediate. However, this freedom is precious to me because it establishes a life-work ethic. "Exercício de Declinação" comprises a varied set of ink drawings and an artist's book.

Isabel Baraona has been teaching at ESAD.CR since 2003 in the Fine Arts course. She holds a degree in Painting from La Cambre (Belgium) and a PhD in Visual Arts and Intermedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). In 2013, as part of a post-doctoral fellowship, she was a research fellow at the University of Rennes 2 (France) where she developed research that led to the Tipo.pt project, an online archive about artist's books and self-publishing in Portugal. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. Her work is represented in national collections such as the EDP Foundation, the D. Luís I Foundation/C. M. Cascais, MGFR (Fernando Figueiredo Ribeiro), Safira and Luís Serpa, the Portuguese Serigraphy Center, and in international collections such as Yolande De Bontridder, Galila Barzilaï-Hollander, among others.

Recent solo exhibitions: Procession, Galeria Diferença (Lisbon, 2022). Oracles and litanies: drawing and walking, Museu Frei Manuel do Cenáculo (Évora, 2022). Drawing: body-to-body, Lugar do Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende (Gondomar, 2021). Love letters, Reading Room of the Mestre Rogério Ribeiro Documentation and Research Center, Casa da Cerca (Almada, 2021).

Recent group exhibitions: Between gazes, (Un)common Encounters, Modern Art Center in motion program, Alcântara Library (Lisbon, 2023). The writing of the voice, with Mafalda Santos and Susana Gaudêncio, Museu Frei Manuel do Cenáculo (Évora, 2023). Amor Veneris, Musex, Palácio Anjos (Algés, 2022). Open arms form right angles, with Mafalda Santos and Susana Gaudêncio, Trem Gallery (Faro, 2022). Artist's Books by Women Artists, Art Library Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2021). Between: four hands and a conversation, with Catarina Domingues and Mónica Garcia, Chapel of the Cascais Cultural Center, D. Luís I Foundation (Cascais, 2021). Looking Back Looking, Isabel Baraona and Pedro Nora, Illustration exhibition cycle, Center for Arts and Architecture Affairs (Guimarães, 2021).

Artistic residency in 2022: July and August—Aviário Studio, Chão da Serra, Ferreira do Zêzere, creation of an artist's book entitled Notebook.