ISABELLA GALVÃO

Bella Galvão is a Brazilian visual artist born in Recife, Pernambuco. Her work brings together a constellation of emotional landscapes evoked by memories of her personal formation, drawing notably on cultural expressions of Northeastern Brazilian identity as the foundation of an endless investigation into the Brazilian mystical imagination, while simultaneously engaging with dreams
and the depths of the human condition.

Her appreciation for textures and the juxtaposition of colors—at times warm, at times subdued—has led Bella to “clothe drawing with a mantle of paint,” gesturally moving between figuration and abstraction in an exercise of hybridizing human and non-human natures, which come
to coexist in seductive communion.

The “sensual world,” in this context, symbolizes the artist’s urgency to conceive chimerical scenarios. These spaces are inhabited by hybrid beings endowed with hypersensitivity, within which a certain violence is, at times, inscribed. There are no manicheisms: Bella dissolves the emotional boundaries that dwell in ideas of erasure and the passage of time, like a fogged pane of glass or the uncertainty of whether one is, in fact, remembering or inventing things.