Marcela Florido

b. 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Marcela Florido is a Brooklyn-based artist, who works with large scales paintings. Her practice questions modern ideas of the body’s representation and its relationship to the Brazilian context. Florido’s work portrays plants native to Brazil, and female portraiture, which convey charged energies and secular states. she delegates her interest in space on her canvas by imagining the different ways that the body can inhabit physical space. (Courtesy of Volery Gallery, Dubai).