Neyde Joppert
Women in Buenos Aires

Neyde Joppert is a Brazilian architect by training and a self-taught visual artist. She teaches urban planning and also engages in artistic and poetic research related to wandering through the city and observing how people use public spaces.

During her residency in ´ace, with a project on women in Buenos Aires, Neyde walked the streets of the city, took public transport, participated in visits to local artists’ workshops and thus met eight women who agreed to be portrayed by her for her project. After photographing them, she made graphite drawings, enlarged, trying to record the most characteristic features of each woman’s personality. She then painted in oil on acrylic, a transparent material, which will allow for different views of the paintings when they are joined together as an installation in the same space. On the city map, she drew the polygon formed by connecting the places where she met these women, which will later serve as a structure for a future installation of the paintings as a whole. The palette she used was reduced to a few tones to create a pictorial connection between the portraits, and less saturated, as suggested by the filtered light of those days Neyde spent in Buenos Aires.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an artist interested in the everyday situations of urban life, observing people passing by, and I translate these snapshots mainly through painting. I record these scenes in a world where people live increasingly individual lives, I approach strangers in public places, talk about my work and ask for their participation. Through the work I create a memory, I record an existence.