Gabriel Pessoto

List of Artworks

September.17 - DECEMBER.30.2020

 

Gabriel Pessoto was born in 1993 in Jundiai, countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. He obtained a degree in cinema and started to develop his artistic research through video and the digital images. He is Interested, mostly, in the use of image to shape desires, idealisations and memories, such as recipe books, home decoration magazines and pornography. He is a collector of images, from social media print screens to old publications, and investigates how to organise this amount of visual memories into pre-existent compositions appropriated mostly from craftworks (embroidery, knitting and crochet, for example) traditionally made by women. Through this procedure, Pessoto is engaged in discussions around gender roles, sexuality and the popular visual production historically marginalised in art history. 

 

Gabriel Pessoto, repository: a little a day is already a lot, 2018-2020, crayon and colored pencil on paper, 120 cm x 120cm (16 30 x 30 panels), 47.2 in x 47.2 in

 

Gabriel Pessoto, Old Motivs I, 2020, crayon and colored pencil on paper, 70 cm x 70 cm, 27.5 in x 27.5 in

Gabriel Pessoto, Old Motivs II, 2020, crayon and colored pencil on paper, 70 cm x 70 cm, 27.5 in x 27.5 in

Gabriel Pessoto, Old Motivs III, 2020, crayon and colored pencil on paper, 70 cm x 70 cm, 27.5 in x 27.5 in

 
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Gabriel Pessoto in his studio

 

ARTIST BIO

Since 2015, he has been part of several collective shows, including exhibitions in Germany, United States and Iran. In Brazil, he exhibited his works in art galleries and institutions, such as MARGS, MARP, CAC W, Sesc-Fundarte, Lamb Arts, Massapê Projetos and Lona Galeria. In 2018, he presented "um pouco por dia já é muito" (a little a day is already a lot), his first solo show in São Paulo. In 2020, he joined the residency program "temos vagas!" in Ateliê397, and won the "correspondence" prize by ArtConnect Magazine for the work "trocando figurinhas" (swapping stickers) developed with Nicole Kouts and in the collection of Museu da Diversidade Sexual.