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Ela Bittencourt

Ela Bittencourt is a critic and cultural journalist, currently based in São Paulo. She writes on art, film and literature, often in the context of social issues and politics.

Posted inArt

In São Paulo, Overlooked Women Artists Get the Spotlight

by Ela Bittencourt November 5, 2023November 3, 2023

It’s refreshing to see a number of recent shows across the city highlighting work by Brazilian women, rectifying historical gaps.

Posted inFilm

How to Make a Different Kind of Holocaust Film

by Ela Bittencourt September 26, 2023September 26, 2023

Two movies at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival reflect on the onscreen representation of the Holocaust after Claude Lanzmann’s landmark Shoah.

Posted inArt

Searching for Brazilian Identity Between Performance and Life

by Ela Bittencourt October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

Through regional music and dance Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca affirm as well as explore and subvert Brazilian identity.

Posted inArt

An Artist’s Illness Inspires a Meditation on the Power of Pain

by Ela Bittencourt September 12, 2022September 15, 2022

Guadalupe Maravilla’s first New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative.

Posted inArt

Building an Art Community From the Ashes of Destructivism

by Ela Bittencourt August 31, 2022September 1, 2022

Ortiz’s radical approach to art led from unleashing of aggression through ritualistic performances to political engagement and the founding of El Museo del Barrio.

Posted inArt

Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe

by Ela Bittencourt June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.

Posted inArt

Mary Beth Edelson Celebrated the Goddess Within

by Ela Bittencourt May 29, 2022May 29, 2022

Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would.

Posted inArt

A Spirit of Confident Feminism at Salon Zürcher

by Ela Bittencourt May 17, 2022May 18, 2022

The small New York art fair celebrated its 26th edition with the works of 11 women artists.

Posted inArt

Cosmos and Earth Collide in Pier Paolo Calzolari’s Alchemical Art

by Ela Bittencourt April 19, 2022April 20, 2022

In Calzolari’s recent paintings, organic and metaphysical forces are one: vapors are rudimentary atmospheric gas particles, but they also signify wonder and bliss.

Posted inArt

Marina Abramović Is Suspended Between Self-Sacrifice and Spectacle

by Ela Bittencourt April 11, 2022April 11, 2022

Abramović’s art embodies a dark, personal truth: one overcomes punishment through self-sacrifice, denial, turning the hurt into a weapon of liberation, at times literally bought in blood.

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Betsy Kaufman Puts Pressure on Geometric Abstraction

by Ela Bittencourt April 4, 2022April 5, 2022

Kaufman’s sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line.

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Art as an Exercise in Moving Through Grief

by Ela Bittencourt March 21, 2022March 23, 2022

What’s clear in These Conditions is artist Adelita Husni Bey’s ambition to push art to be more than an exercise in spectatorship.

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