Ilana Paterman Brasil (Petrópolis, 1982) is a visual artist and designer. She graduated in Design from Esdi/Uerj, where she also completed a PhD on drawing, technologies and decoloniality in 2022. She obtained a diploma in audiovisual art in 2012 from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany, through a DAAD scholarship. Her artistic work focuses on watercolor and charcoal animations, in which she investigates, through artisanal making, the relationships between the body, the feminine and popular cultures. Recent activities include: exhibition "Bloco do Prazer" , Museu de Arte do Rio, 2024; MC Mulheres festival, Vitória, 2023; solo exhibition "Água de Cor" (Water of Color), Sesc Teresópolis, 2023; award for best experimental video dance, Híbrido Fest, São Paulo, 2022; and Animage - International Animation Festival, Pernambuco, 2022. Solo exhibition How to Dance Funk, Sesc Alpina, 2022; selected in the Visual Arts category by the Rumos Itaú Cultural 2020 program.
EDUCATION
2018-2022
PhD in Design at PPDESDI/UERJ (Superior School of Industrial Design, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2016-2017
Scholarship for Artistic Research, Creation and Experimentation by FAPERJ/SEC-RJ, Brazil
2009-2012
Post-graduation studies in Media Arts at Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM Köln), Germany, with DAAD scholarship
2005
One-year exchange program at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
2001-2006
Graduation in Design at ESDI/UERJ, Brazil
RECENT ACTIVITES
2024
Exhibition Bloco do Prazer, Museu de Arte do Rio
2023
Solo exhibition Água de Cor (Water of Color), Sesc Teresópolis, RJ
Corpo Aquarela Worskhop (Watercolor Body), Rio de Janeiro
2022
Art Funding Cultura Presente nas Redes 2, Secretary of Cultures and Creative Economy, RJ
VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Finland
Ecrã Festival of Experimental Cinema, Rio de Janeiro
Híbrido Festival, prize of best experimental screendance, São Paulo
Solo exhibition 'How to dance funk', at Sesc Alpina, Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro
South American Awards, official selection on experimental film
Group exhibition Pequenos Formatos, Fábrica Bhering, RJ
Screening at Pequeno Formatos Projetados, Estação Net Rio, Rio de Janeiro
2021
Group Exhibition Ver_Ão, Galeria Oasis, Rio de Janeiro
Inqrvention Festival, Porto, Portugal
Prize of Best Filmmaker at Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival
Online video art exhibition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, Brazil
Debate and individual exhibition of 10 artworks projected at the Winter Festival Sesc, Serrana Region, RJ, Brazil
2020
Art Funding Rumos - Itaú Cultural, Category Visual Arts
Art Funding Respirarte, Visual Arts, Funarte (Brazilian Government)
Los Angeles Dance Short Film Festival, USA
Festival International de Danse Animée, Reunion
Ecrã Festival, MAM-Rio, projected on the city
Edital Arte como Respiro, Itaú Cultural, Brazil
Edital Cultura Presente nas Redes, Secretary of Culture, Rio de Janeiro
Exhibition Black Brazil Art Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018/19
Presentation at XIII RAM (Meeting of Anthropologies of Mercosul), in Porto Alegre, Brazil
International Screen Dance Festival, Freiburg, Germany
26º Croatian One-Minute Festival, Zagreb
Premiere of "Acolhimento" at ESDI, Rio de Janeiro
2017
Awards at Festival do Minuto, with 2 animations
Exhibition and screening "Watercolors and animations", Fábrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro
Exhibition Reconvexo, event of video-mapping,
Cachoeira, BA, Brazil
Premiere of "Ogan Bangbala: Watercolor Beats" at
Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro
Teacher at ESPM Rio (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) for the classes of Adobe Premiere and Photoshop
2014/2016
Scholarship at Dialogic Communication Lab, UERJ,
Rio de Janeiro
Teacher at Colégio Estadual José Leite Lopes / NAVE,
in two disciplines of the 1st year of Multimedia course
Cultural exchange by the Secretary of Culture of state of Rio, to take members of a Candomblé religious house to Mexico
2010/12
Screening of "Mariame". KHM Köln, Germany
Best trip prize at the Festival International du Film des Vacances, Poitiers, France
Freelance designer at KHM Köln, Germany
Exhibition of photography work "Taking Pictures"
at Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Germany
2007/09
Assistant designer at Danowski Design, Rio de Janeiro
Best artistic video prize at Brazilian Symposium of
Computer Graphics, Belo Horizonte
Research assistant at the Visual and Graphics Lab
of Impa, Rio de Janeiro