Thais Ribeiro
b. Rio de Janeiro; lives and works in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Thais Ribeiro is a visual artist. She has a college degree in Fashion Design and post-graduation in Visual Arts with a focus on Education. For 12 years she worked in pattern design and creative illustration for the fashion industry. Since 2015, she researches Textile Art and upcycling as educational vehicles. With the Roupa Refeita project, she taught courses in textile art and upcycling at various institutions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador. She researches connections of what is ordinary and temporary to what we deem potentially permanent, which usually is long kept in a drawer or frozen in a picture. The main question of her work is what memories remain in objects, photographs and places, and how the stories they carry along time change according to our feelings and understanding of life’s impermanence. Her works were featured on the exhibition “Do resíduo à forma” in collaboration with the Fashion Revolution Movement in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, and on the Do write (right) to me exhibitions, both in New York and Miami in 2021
Thais Ribeiro
Nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, vive e trabalha em São Paulo.
Thais Ribeiro é artista visual, formada em Design de Moda e pós graduada em Artes Visuais com ênfase em Educação. Atuou por 12 anos no mercado de estamparia e ilustração de Moda. Desde 2015, pesquisa a arte têxtil e a ressignificação de roupas como veículo educacional. Com o projeto Roupa Refeita, ministrou cursos de arte têxtil e upcycling em diversas instituições no Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Salvador. Investiga as relações entre o que é transitório e cotidiano e o que julgamos que pode ser permanente, guardado no fundo de uma gaveta ou congelado em uma foto. Que memórias permanecem contidas nesses objetos, fotos, roupas e lugares e como as histórias que eles carregam mudam de acordo com nossos sentimentos e compreensão da impermanência da vida. Participou da exposição “Do resíduo à forma” em colaboração com o movimento Fashion Revolution no Rio de Janeiro em 2018 e das exposições Do write(right) to me da Uncool Artist, em Nova York e em Miami em 2021.
PORTRAIT FROM THE SERIES “REFLECTING WEAVES, 2022
Sewing lines on mirror and wood frame. – 61 x61 cm
In a time when selfies and photoshoped images are omnipresent, millions of layers come together to mask our true reflection. Do we still recognize ourselves amidst this maze of information, filters, and cover-ups? Can you still see yourself in the mirror? In this artwork, Thais Ribeiro invites us to wonder about our true identity, hidden along numerous layers that set up between who we are and who we seem to be. In this portrait, the artwork is only fully accomplished with the observer’s own image, although a figure trapped under an entropic network of thread, maybe a remembrance of whoever looks at us from the other side of the mirror.
RETRATOS DA SÉRIE “TECIDOS REFLEXOS”, 2022
Linhas de costura sobre espelho e moldura de madeira – 61 x 61 cm
Em um tempo de selfies e imagens retocadas, milhões de camadas se cruzam e encobrem nosso verdadeiro reflexo. Ainda sabemos como somos, no meio deste emaranhado de informações, filtros e máscaras? Você ainda se reconhece no espelho? Neste trabalho, Thais Ribeiro nos convida a refletir sobre nossa verdadeira identidade em meio a tantas camadas que se interpõem entre quem somos e quem parecemos ser. Nesse retrato, a obra só se completa com a imagem do espectador que a observa, um vulto refletido em meio a um emaranhado de fios, uma lembrança de que alguém de verdade está olhando do outro lado do espelho.
BREAK-OUT ROOM Nº2, 2021
Color pencil and nanquim on paper The superimposed portraits are images of people who have connected and deeply related through virtual practices. To conceive the work, the artist asks her colleagues: Who impacted your life during the pandemic? What sentence would sum up what they showed you? From a collection of responses, and a print of the computer screens that witness this sensitive crossing, Ribeiro draws and uses transparency and opacity to reflect on virtual relationships.BREAK-OUT ROOM Nº1, 2021
Color pencil and nanquim on paper The superimposed portraits are images of people who have connected and deeply related through virtual practices. To conceive the work, the artist asks her colleagues: Who impacted your life during the pandemic? What sentence would sum up what they showed you? From a collection of responses, and a print of the computer screens that witness this sensitive crossing, Ribeiro draws and uses transparency and opacity to reflect on virtual relationships.
