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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

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.

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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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“Women’s Work” as an Aesthetic Provocation

by Ela Bittencourt March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

While I cheered at the idea that a largely forgotten woman Dadaist was finally getting her due, I couldn’t help but wonder why the art world’s recognition of Sophie Taeuber-Arp has been so spotty.

Posted inArt

The Edgy and Lucid Video Art of Rafael França

by Ela Bittencourt January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

Posted inOpinion

Remembering Jaider Esbell and How His Activism Challenged Art Institutions

by Ela Bittencourt December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

Jaider Esbell showed us that future biennials will need to look to art activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as authoring agents.

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The Power of the Dog Is a Different Kind of Western Film

by Ela Bittencourt December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Acclaimed director Jane Campion returns to film with an all-star cast featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and more.

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Rosalind Fox Solomon Captures the Humanity of Everyday Lives

by Ela Bittencourt November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

In a way, Solomon’s photo series The Forgotten harks back to a time when viewers believed that pictures told it all.

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