Can you introduce yourself ?
I’m Renata De Bonis, born in 1984 in São Paulo, Brazil.
I’m currently living in the outskirts of Amsterdam after spending almost the entire last decade living in multiple countries attending residencies, developing several research projects and constantly searching for God knows what. I concluded a PhD in Processes and Procedures of Contemporary Art in 2020, where I extensively researched displacement as the core of several artists practices, including my own.
I’m an artist and researcher that works mainly with painting, but I’m extremely interested in sound and have been experimenting a lot with it in the last years.
I pay attention to the not-seen, not perceived, ephemeral mundane moments that happens all the time but are extremely poetic and mediocrely special.
I dealt with anxiety my whole life and the act of painting takes me back to the present moment, helping me to focus; it’s where I find comfort on my discomfort.
