Márcia Falcão—Corpo de Cor

In impasto layers of oil paint, Falcão paints voluminous nudes with dynamic brushstrokes. Her paintings have a painterly and physical urgency reminiscent of the fleshy materiality of Lucian Freud or the monumental body representations of Jenny Saville. Falcão, however, clearly locates the body as a woman's body - including her own, marked by lived experience.

Falcão's painterly approach is metalinguistic. Her engagement with the formal conditions of painting results in works that establish complex references to femininity, motherhood, art history, marginalisation and violence.

Márcia Falcão was born in 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lives and works today. The artist has exhibited in both Brazil and the United States and is featured prominently in this year's 36th São Paulo Biennial, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.