Marcela Dioverti
Bio
Asunción, 1984.
Paraguayan painter trained in drawing and printmaking in São Paulo, Brazil (FEBASP and the Center for Brazilian Studies).
Her work is characterized by an expressive and personal visual language that she has developed since the mid-2010s. She has exhibited in the most prominent cultural spaces and galleries in Asunción, such as the Texo Foundation, the Visual Arts Center/Museum of Barro, Galería FUGA, the Embassy of Paraguay in Paris, and the Exaedro gallery.
She was awarded the 2018 Matisse Prize, which allowed her a residency at the Cité des Arts (Paris, 2019). She has participated in several group exhibitions such as Paraguayan Painters and Emboscada, and in art fairs such as Oxígeno.
Her work reflects on the feminine, the political, and the sensitive through an intense and gestural aesthetic.
Statement
My work is a pictorial exploration that combines gestural intensity with a deeply expressive visual language. Since 2015, I have been forging a path where the sensitive, the political, and the feminine intertwine to reflect on contemporary experience.
My training in drawing and printmaking laid a technical foundation that I expanded into a painting of layers, textures, and deliberate deformations. I do not seek literal representation, but rather an internal force that emerges from construction and destruction.
Each work is an encounter with the body, both in the physicality of the brushstroke and in the reflection on identities and memories. This visceral approach dialogues with a critical eye toward social structures.
I aspire to a poetic aesthetic that rejects the decorative. I conceive my painting as a space of freedom and questioning, where vulnerability and power coexist, engaging in dialogue with the universal from a personal root.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
