Regina Parra investigates the tension between oppression and rebellion through a multifaceted work: paintings, drawings, videos, performances, installations, and neon signs, bound to other creative areas such as dance, music, costume design, and cinema. What unites all these elements is theater, the artist’s first training. Her work is centered on woman’s social body, as a place of affirmation and potential power. Challenging official narratives perpetrated by patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism, Parra inverts the assumptions of vulnerability about female bodies through works that mark a critical, feminist stance. 

Her most recent solo exhibition, Pagã, was held at the Pina Estação, São Paulo, Brazil (2023). The artist was awarded the 3M Public Art Award (2018), and the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation’s Video Award and Videobrasil Award, both in 2011. Parra was also nominated for the Emerging Artists Award, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. 

Parra’s work is part of collections such as Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain; MASP, Brazil; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; FAMA, Brazil; Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Brazil; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brazil; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Brazil. 

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