About the artist

Rebeca Carapiá
1988, Salvador, Brazil
Lives and works between Salvador and São Paulo, Brazil

Using mainly iron and copper, Rebeca Carapiá’s work takes the form of sculptures, installations, drawings, and engravings, in which torsion, bonding, and approximation of these materials constitute an abstract calligraphy. With words as their starting point, Carapiá’s pieces inflate, bend, and slice language in an exercise to dislocate it from a linear and monolithic position. As such, her work shapes itself as a distinctive language, the result of the bond between body, terrain, memory, and knowledge stemming from the artist’s own experiences, as well as those imbued in the materials of the pieces.

She has had works commissioned by the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice (2025), by Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho (2024), and by the 38th Panorama da Arte Brasileira, organised by MAM São Paulo at MAC USP (2024). She held solo exhibitions in São Paulo in 2023, 2021 and 2020, the same year she took part in Pivô Satélite. In 2026 she was an Art Explora resident at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, and she is among the artists of the 17th Sharjah Biennial, opening in January 2027.

Her work is held in the collections of Instituto Inhotim, MAC Bahia, MAM Bahia and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo.