Marcia Xavier

Marcia Xavier (Belo Horizonte, 1967) is a Brazilian visual artist who lives and works in São Paulo. Her artistic practice originates from photography, creating works that explore landscapes, horizons, and architecture, incorporating objects or light boxes resulting from formal solutions or speculations. Xavier participated in the 3rd Mercosul Biennial in Brazil and the 6th Havana Biennial in Cuba. Her work is included in significant public collections such as the Société Générale d’Art Contemporain in France, the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) and Banco Itaú, both in São Paulo, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Ribeirão Preto, and the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection in Rio de Janeiro.

At the beginning of her career in the 1990s, Marcia Xavier investigated photography through self-portraits. In the 2000s, her work expanded to explore image and issues of distortion and formal presentation. In works like "Carambola" (2000), billiard balls are reflected and distorted on the walls of a container lined with aluminum. Pieces such as "Quadra" (2003) and "Curva Francesa" (2005) reflect her interest in issues of scale and urban organization. Her most recent research approaches architecture, exemplified by "Olho d’água" (2007), an installation that creates spatial distortions through water-reflected images.

According to curator Lizette Lagnado, Xavier's work presents itself as a "speculative terrain, in which certain photographs remain stored for years until they find a line that determines their destiny (...) It's curious to observe that Marcia Xavier's interest is fixed on precision games, whose movement depends on a partnership. Although governed by a system of rules and calculations, they involve an 'abstract perception of the world', the indeterminacy of moves that bifurcate."

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