About Bia Furtado
Bia Furtado is a visual artist who works primarily in ceramics. Recently graduated from Carleton College, where she acquired a double major in Studio Art and in French and Francophone Studies, Bia currently attends the University of Arkansas as a first-year post-bac in Ceramics. Drawn to the archival qualities of clay and its widespread significance throughout History, she uses this same material to create sculptures and environments that investigate the mythologies and absurdities intertwined within socially-constructed narratives and personal memories.
My current body of work seeks to explore the multi-situated identities of brown femininity, all the while centering my affinity for inextricably intertwined, “sticky” narratives within my own subjectivity as a Latin American female artist raised in Brazil. My research is continuously propelled by a deep curiosity for the ambiguous complexities that entangle notions of identity, boundaries, borders, and senses of belonging. By combining bright colorful glazes with an overall loose and playful aesthetic, I invite the viewer to engage with the political ideas present in my work as to contend with the socio-historical narratives that permeate their own lives.
About the art
Bia Furtado is a visual artist who works primarily in ceramics. Recently graduated from Carleton College, where she acquired a double major in Studio Art and in French and Francophone Studies, Bia currently attends the University of Arkansas as a first-year post-bac in Ceramics. Drawn to the archival qualities of clay and its widespread significance throughout History, she uses this same material to create sculptures and environments that investigate the mythologies and absurdities intertwined within socially-constructed narratives and personal memories.
My current body of work seeks to explore the multi-situated identities of brown femininity, all the while centering my affinity for inextricably intertwined, “sticky” narratives within my own subjectivity as a Latin American female artist raised in Brazil. My research is continuously propelled by a deep curiosity for the ambiguous complexities that entangle notions of identity, boundaries, borders, and senses of belonging. By combining bright colorful glazes with an overall loose and playful aesthetic, I invite the viewer to engage with the political ideas present in my work as to contend with the socio-historical narratives that permeate their own lives.