Waiting, playing, repeating
Waiting, playing, repeating
1.100 €
2025
2025
Watercolor on air dry clay
Watercolor on air dry clay
64 x 150 x 2,5cm
64 x 150 x 2,5cm
My proposal is driven by the desire to merge sculpture with drawing, creating a spatial narrative that moves beyond the limitations of the paper format. The work discusses pathways, territories, and the pursuit of an identity filled with questions and no defined conclusion. Each segment is made of clay and dialogues with different stages of this journey, exploring the relationship between image and text. It’s about the slow, often exhausting process of finding your way back to yourself after a period of disconnection — a journey shaped by the need to rebuild without clarity, without closure.
My proposal is driven by the desire to merge sculpture with drawing, creating a spatial narrative that moves beyond the limitations of the paper format. The work discusses pathways, territories, and the pursuit of an identity filled with questions and no defined conclusion. Each segment is made of clay and dialogues with different stages of this journey, exploring the relationship between image and text. It’s about the slow, often exhausting process of finding your way back to yourself after a period of disconnection — a journey shaped by the need to rebuild without clarity, without closure.
Maryam Shimizu (São Paulo, 2000) is a Brazilian artist currently based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy through the Erasmus program. Since 2018, her work has been presented in several group exhibitions, including Spike to Spika at Galeria Monumental; Encontros Imediatos de Segundo Grau at Galerias Municipais de Lisboa – Galeria Avenida da Índia; 22/09/22 at the National Society of Fine Arts; and Não faz o que eu digo, faz o que eu faço at Tinta nos Nervos. With a background in painting, her work now unfolds across various practices, including installation, performance, comics, and bookmaking—often seeking to merge these disciplines. Her practice is guided by the relationship between storytelling and space. She gathers fragments from the world—objects, memories, gestures—and arranges them not to explain, but to invite new narratives and reveal the invisible paths that connect things we once believed to be separate.
Maryam Shimizu (São Paulo, 2000) is a Brazilian artist currently based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy through the Erasmus program. Since 2018, her work has been presented in several group exhibitions, including Spike to Spika at Galeria Monumental; Encontros Imediatos de Segundo Grau at Galerias Municipais de Lisboa – Galeria Avenida da Índia; 22/09/22 at the National Society of Fine Arts; and Não faz o que eu digo, faz o que eu faço at Tinta nos Nervos. With a background in painting, her work now unfolds across various practices, including installation, performance, comics, and bookmaking—often seeking to merge these disciplines. Her practice is guided by the relationship between storytelling and space. She gathers fragments from the world—objects, memories, gestures—and arranges them not to explain, but to invite new narratives and reveal the invisible paths that connect things we once believed to be separate.