Lavinia Góes is a Brazilian artist living and working in Paris.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I use painting as a medium to stimulate the viewer's affective and playful memory. The idea is to promote an exchange of my cultural identities through the use of strong colours and strokes, by making my own paints with Brazilian vegetable pigments and French minerals, and also by freely representing vessels such as pots, vases, and bottles, the result of extensive research on ceramics.

Currently, my artistic practice is focused on themes that intertwine: the making of paints and research on china and ceramics. I establish a connection with my dual French-Brazilian identity through acrylic paint making. I use pigments from Brazilian plants such as jenipap, faveira and urucum and earths such as ochres from Burgundy, France. Earthenware (vaisselle), porcelain and ceramics appear in my work for a few reasons. First, the ritualistic character, in my case the memory of Christmases at my grandmother's house and her special dishes. Then historical, because since ancient times, pottery in various forms and functions, is present and can even tell the story of humanity and identify its origins. The transformation earth, fire, object enchants me as well as the art craft techniques and the French savoir-faire of porcelain, where there is a very strong appreciation of this heritage.

As I dive into my memory, I discovered that, for having gone through several ruptures and separations, moving cities and countries, being apart from loved ones, parents, family, and friends, my work speaks, finally, about belonging. Belonging somewhere, or to someone, or to one or several groups. No wonder I represent objects that are containers. Vessels allow the mobility of the content they hold, they allow changes. Vessels shelter, protect, and preserve their contents. Vessels belong to people and are exchanged, passed from hand to hand. Vessels that hold things are also held. They are forgotten, they are revealed. Recipients have and reveal identities, a technique, a time, a way of making, a style. I believe that all these questions are closely connected and still deserve a lot of investigation because they still appear in many forms within my work.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2023

Mad’Expo - Collectif Group show
5 Rue du Chevalier Saint-George, 75008. Paris. December 7-10

Feira MOTIM - Clã Destinos Artists group show
Museu Nacional da República. Brasília, Brazil. December 1-2

Trânsitos Afetivos - Clã Destinos Artists group show
Casa NAMATA. Bélem do Pará, Brazil. October 4 - November 25

Couleurs - Atlas Collectif Group show
Asnières, France. October 7-8

PODADA
Asnières, France. October 7-8

19th Salon des Lauréats
Le Colombier. Ville d’Avray. October 3-21

The Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition
Selected by the New York gallery owner and curator Anita Rogers among 1800 entries and 5500 artworks with 54 artists form all over the world.

1st Prize
46th Salon de Printemps
L’entr@cte Galerie. Ville d’Avray, France. April 3-23

63th Beaux-Arts de Garches - Salon d’Art Contemporain
Garches, France. Mars 17h - April 2nd

Printemps des Artistes 2023
Courbevoie, France. Mars 22nd - April 2nd

78th Salon Arami - L’Art Contemporain en Val d’Oise
Ermont, France. February 4-12

2022

20th Salon d’Art Contemporain Colombes
Colombes, France. November 19-20

51st Salon d’Arts de Vaucresson
Vaucresson, France. October 8-16.

Atlas Collectif Group Show
Asnières, France. October 8-9.