Carolina Paz, untitled (79 squares), 2025, Series grid, Oil and wax on 79 2x2-inch square canvases, 21 x 16.5 inches
Guided Tour and Artwork Activation
Saturday, November 1, from 4–6 pm
A.I.R. Gallery
Join us on Saturday, November 1 for a tour of imagining spaces with artist Carolina Paz and curator Iara Pimenta. During this event, Pimenta will discuss the concepts and inspirations behind the work, provide notes on Paz's research, and share details on specific pieces. The artist will also lead partipants in exploring ideas for activating the participatory installation.
Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose work moves at the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. She shifts between painting, installation, text, video, and reconfigurations of care, creating gestures of closeness, interruption, and realignment. She meets the world as matter in process, often through iteration, dislocation, and attentive presence. Curatorial and pedagogical modes are integral to her practice; she builds platforms, programs, and exhibitions as living ecologies that question, hold, and transform. She founded Uncool Artist, a structure for experimental development and field transformation, and serves as both artist and board member at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. From 2010 to 2017, she directed Coletivo 2e1 in São Paulo. Her work has been shown in museums, biennials, institutional venues, and artist-run spaces in Brazil, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina. She received the Funarte Visual Arts Prize, and her pieces are held in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Brazil. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduate degrees in Social Sciences and in Media and Knowledge from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. www.carolinapaz.com
Iara Pimenta is an independent curator and writer interested in interdisciplinary art practices. Her projectslook at the relationships between history and transformations in the built environment and how artworks propose new perspectives on collective memories and imaginaries. She has researched and written about exhibitions, institutions, and the work of artists and architects, especially from the Americas. She holds a master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Practices from Columbia University and a professional degree in Architecture from the University of São Paulo. She has more than ten years of experience in elaborating and planning exhibitions and public programs, collaborating with organizations and art galleries in São Paulo (Brazil) and New York. Her projects have been presented at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial (Turkey), Residency Unlimited (New York), Kunstraum (New York), Columbia University (New York), and Book Culture LIC (New York), among others.