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ABOUT

Raquel Mendes is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Brazil based in Toronto. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Brazil, the United States, Canada, and Argentina, exploring themes around relationality, feminist subjectivity, and the interconnectedness of existence. She performs research that explores practical engagements of mutually beneficial multispecies exchange in urban environments through auto-ethnographic and research-creation methodologies. She has a BFA from Universidade de Brasília in Brazil, an MFA from OCAD University, and is currently a PhD student in the Environmental Studies program at York University. 

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Through my work, I hope to incite contemplation around the ways human beings can establish reciprocal exchange with other human and more-than-human beings on material and symbolic levels. My artistic research is developed in collaboration with the people, animals, plants, and places with which I interact as I live my life: mulberries from a tree in my backyard and the insects they attract, the dry leaves my children bring home as they walk from school, the snow piling over a table in the porch, the cosmos flowers swaying all along my street, a friend willing to pose for a portrait. The relationships I form are at the center of my creative endeavours.”

© 2024 by Raquel Mendes.

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