João Paulo Serafim

Born 1974, France
 

João Paulo Serafim works in photography, manipulating it by using models and reusing other images, blurring the frontiers between reality and artificiality.
He had already several solo shows, in 2008, he presents “The Improbable Museum” at the Centre Culturel Gulbenkian in Paris and the Blanes Museum in Montevideo. In 2006, he presented “Je t’aime moi non plus” at the gallery Box4 in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2005 at the gallery Baginski.

 


He has participated in several group shows, e.g. in 2008 “Nuit de l’Europe” at Rencontres d’Arles, France, “AAFNY (Affordable Art Fair of New York)”, New York, USA, "Substance” in Spike Island , Bristol, UK. In 2007, “Remembering Jack Kerouac” at Espaço Avenida, Lisbon, “Open Studio do Sítio das Artes” at CAMJAP/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, “Young Art Europe 2007” at Moya - Museum of Young Art, Vienna, Austria, and “ Homo Migratus” at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.



João Paulo Serafim, Untitled from “Improbable Museum”, Lambda print , 90 x 180 cm, 2007.