Jacira da Conceição

Artworks

Umbigo (centro) do mundo

Ceramics and engobe

152 cm

2023

Terra

Ceramics and engobe

185 cm

2023

ÁGUA

Ceramics and engobe

180 cm

2023

Biography

Jacira da Conceição born February 23, 1990 is an artist and investigator (CHAIA - Évora University) who works with ceramic sculpture and different media and multi-techniques such as textiles or found objects. Her artistic practice is closely linked to her cultural identity.She was born in 1990 and grew up on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. She lives and works between Cabo Verde and Portugal. In her work, she is deeply involved with the elements of nature and with the observation of the immaterial. Working with ceramics for her means a very poetic approach to clay, a material that reflects the beauty, original harmony and deep nature with its elements of water, fire, space, light and fragility, even in its handling. Jacira da Conceição sees her artistic action as a fusion with space, the everyday gesture, life itself. At the same time, ceramics and its techniques, mostly performed by women, are at the heart of her artistic work, but also the island, the meaning of rain and the sea, the seasons, the community of potter and their affinities in gesture and spirit, and the fact that the land is something shared. Her work emanates an almost ritual poetry, female sculptures that speak of a feminine vision of existence. "The pot is a place that unites people, that passes from hand to hand, made of earth, the same earth that carries us."

Training

2023 Master's student in artistic practices in visual arts at the University of Évora
2022 Research residency in Tarrafal de Santiago with funding from the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation grant
2015-2017 Research into traditional Cape Verdean ceramics in Trás di Munti potters
village, Municipality of Tarrafal, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
2009 Research residency with the community of women potters and ceramists in the
Itamatatiua Quilombo

Exhibitions

2024 solo exhibition, OBI LI, mix media, Verão art Gallery, Lisbon, curated by
Antonia Gaeta
2023 Guest artist, B.o.C.A. Lisbon contemporary art biennial, Insularity: performance
-Deriva, Lisbon public space, artistic direction by John Romão
2023 Group exhibition, "Chama-lhe Apenas Horizonte", ceramic sculptures, Casa da
Cerca contemporary art center, Almada, curated by Filipa Oliveira and Camila
Missune
2023 Guest artist, artist residency program, Futurama Festival, cultural and artistic
ecosystem of the lower Alentejo, Insularity: installation and performance, Visigothic
museum and public space in the city of Beja
2023 Group exhibition, PARAGONE: What's with the mediums today, ceramic
sculptures, water museum, patriarchal reservoir, Jardim do Princípe Real, invitation
by the Gallery: This is not a White Cube, Lisbon, curated by Katherine Marianne
Sirois
2023 Solo exhibition, Mar Interior, ceramic sculptures, Galeria Municipal de
Montemor-o-Novo, financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2023 Solo exhibition, Tchom Bom, ceramic sculptures, CCCV Cape Verde cultural
center in Lisbon, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2022 Research residency, Cape Verde, September and October, Tchom Bom
project, funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant to support artistic creation
2022 Group exhibition, The State of the World: South Atlantic Museum, Ceramic
sculptures, Lisbon Municipal Galleries, Palácio Pimenta, Pavilhão Branco
2022 Exhibition, "Da Terra viu nascer, do mesmo chão", Ceramic sculptures, College
of the Holy Spirit, Évora University of Évora, May 25, 2022
2021 Group exhibition, Convergências V, at Galeria Arte Graça in Lisbon
2021 Group exhibition, De Dentro e Fora, at UCCLA-Union of Portuguese-Speaking
Capital Cities Portuguese Language
2021 Facilitator at the Workshop: Initiation to Traditional Cape Verdean Pottery at the
Cape Verde Cultural Center in Lisbon
2021 solo exhibition BADIA, invitation by the Women's Democratic Movement and
the Association of Municipalities in the Setúbal region at the MAEDS-Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnography gallery of the Setúbal District
2020 Facilitator at the Creative Ceramics Workshop for the community of Bairro do
Pombal in Oeiras at the invitation of the POMBAL XXI Community Association
2020 Elaboration of the “Tchubinha” sculpture in the gardens of the Official
Residence of the Cape Verdean Embassy in Lisbon
2020 Creation of large-scale sculpture FLUTUAR installed at the Embassy of
Cape Verde in Lisbon as part of the celebrations for the Forty-fifth anniversary of the
independence of the Republic of Cape Verde
2020 Exhibition “da Saudade do Sal da Terra” with Pedro da Conceição at the
Centro Cultural Center in Lisbon
2019 Teacher in the “Casa de Passarinho” ceramics project at Oficina da Criança in
Montemor-o-novo
2019 Dance teacher as part of the “Brincar à Dança” project at the Oficina da
Criança in Montemor-o-Novo
2018 Solo exhibition, ceramic sculptures, at the Cavalo de Pau gallery in Lisbon
2016 Assistant in the sculpture Woman in Suspension by Pedro da Conceição
2014 Performer in the film “Air no Mar” by Pedro da Conceição
2013 to 2019 Craftswoman with participation in various fairs in Cape Verde and
Portugal.
2013 Teacher of traditional Cape Verdean dance at the Youth Center of
Montemor-o-Novo
2013 Macramé workshop trainer at the Montemor-o-Novo Youth Center
2008-2011 Craftswoman who took part in various handicraft fairs in Cape Verde.
2010 Craftswoman in a group exhibition at the Ildo Lobo Palace of Culture
2009-2010 Craftswoman who took part in several craft fairs in South America.
2009 Trainer at the José Moniz Association, Praia, Cape Verde
2008-2010 Craftswoman and promoter at Loja da terra, part of the Centro de Artes e
Ofícios project, Tarrafal, Cape Verde

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