Brígida Baltar


Brígida Baltar is a Brazilian visual artist. Baltar works in drawing, photography, performance, video, sculpture, and performance. She is interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.
At the end of the 1980s, she attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. Baltar’s work is inspired by the Neo-Concrete Movement and fellow Brazilian artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.

Works

Baltar's artistic career began in the 1990s and crosses many different mediums. Their work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Bergamin & Gomide and the Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo. Before being forced to leave her home in São Paulo, that home became the subject of many of her works. In Abrigo, she carves the form of her body into the wall of her Brazilian home and then entered that space. She ground up many of the red bricks from that house and used that as the medium for future drawings and sculptures.
Baltar strives to return to a pre-industrial, childlike and primitive narration.’ Baltar's artistic production began in the 1990s with the so-called small poetic gestures, developed in her studio-home in Botafogo, a neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.
In her work, Collecting Mist, which was shown at the New Museum, Baltar photographically captures herself in the Sisyphean task of trying to capture mist.
Baltar has had her work exhibited at LAMB Arts in São Paulo, Casas Riegner in Bogota, Bergamin & Gomide in São Paulo, Drawing Room in London, the Embassy of Brazil in London, Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York, and Carbono Galeria in São Paulo.

Exhibitions