
some fears
Isabel Ribeiro
Painting, drawing, sculpture and video are the media used by Isabel Ribeiro to represent situations and spaces. For the construction of images, she appropriates references from the western literary imaginary or from everyday signage.
The artist, who started exhibiting in 2001, is interested in the diversity of anxieties generated in modernity that have to do with a failure of the individual with his environment: the individual and the collective crisis, the conflict between the individual and the social, transformations of space, forces of change, the constant failure of the movements that advocate change, the loneliness of the fight, dilemmas and the longevity of the community, depression, unemployment, loneliness and tedium.
A usual procedure in many of her paintings is the production of slightly changes, displacements, new frameworks, the substitution or deletion of elements from the image of reference. They are images indicating places to escape, places that talk about failure. Other works, auto-biographical, are distorted only by the contingency of the technique, such as Paisagens Nocturnas. Transferred from photography to painting, they represent directly the real.
The artist’s name is also connected to the foundation of Salão Olímpico and Projecto Apêndice, two of the spaces that arouse in Porto, in the last years, managed by the artists themselves.

Isabel Ribeiro

Isabel Ribeiro

Isabel Ribeiro

Susana Mendes Silva, António Bolota, Zulmiro de Carvalho, Alexandre Estrela, Fernando Lanhas, Candice Lin, João Queiroz, Isabel Ribeiro, Arlindo Silva, Ângelo de Sousa, Sérgio Taborda, Pedro Tropa, Willem Weismann, Christine Fowler








