DORA  NASPOLINI

Born in Florianópolis, BRAZIL.

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Dora is Bachelor in Visual Arts by Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC) and graduated in Music Production by Centro Universitário Belas Artes (FABESP). She has already participated in two art residencies - “DECONSTRUKT” in Brooklyn, New York, to work and create in the research “@thesoundofl0ve" during the month of November 2019 and Terra Afefé in 2021 in Bahia. Her first exhibition was part of the Biennial of Curitiba, at MASC, in 2019. She completed a specialization course in ceramics on the lathe and ceramic decorations and adornments in Florence in 2016 and lived in Barcelona during 2017-18, where she worked as an artist and musician participating in trade art fairs in the city, and taking a Ceramics course at  FORMA school and music theory at Taller de Musics. She also spent a year on exchange in Florence, Italy, to study fine arts at the Liceo Artístico Leon Battista Albertti, and developed fluency in the Italian language. In 2020 joined Escola Enrópica, Tomie Ohtake's study group. 

She plays guitar, sings and composes since she was 10 years old and has always been part of bands made up exclusively of women. The first band where she acted as a composer playing her original songs was called @floresnalua and was active in the state of SC during the years 2013-2017. In 2021, @banda.em.do emerged, once again dealing with original work, taking shape in shows, festivals and winning awards in the state of Santa Catarina, releasing two singles and a music video (“FIM” filmed and directed by Pedro Belluomini), and considering the notice from Fundação Catarinense de Cultura to hold the E.P. launch show at the CIC cinema, June 2022 (Florianópolis). She has worked as a visual artist in the areas of communication and development of artistic content for advertising and social media (Voodoo Branded, Vida Manual, Elen Cristina), illustration for magazines, books and brands, monitoring museums (MASC and Bienal de Design de Santa Catarina ) and art exhibitions (flamboiã graphic art fair, ENTREMOSTRAS BADESC, FAF). ​

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Currently, she lives in São Paulo and has a degree in phonographic production at Centro Universitário Belas Artes (FABESP), where he received a scientific initiation scholarship investigating the topic: "Contemporary musical curation - the phonographic industry and the role of the curator". In 2022, participated in Pablo’s Brazil Interdimental TV (2022- Heavy House) and researches music and contemporary art on the @cheriebanda platform in partnership with Aiko. Her recent projects are focused on exploring vulnerability, memory and the movements of love through writing, sound and the intersections between music, sound art and visual arts. She is in the process of recording and producing his first solo album, which is scheduled for release by the end of 2024.

"My artistic research is build through the theme of love and its emotional unfoldings, as a way to explore, discover, and develop my place in the world as an artist and as a woman. I like to think about the disconfiguration of social, western and patriarchal constructions of love in the search for liberation, opening doors to new perspectives and concepts about all types of love and relationships, as political tools and studies on subjectivity itself."