Manuela Falcão
Manuela Falcão utilises intuitive and experimental processes of moulding, glazing and firing to imbue each of her ceramic sculptures with a distinctive identity. This series is also strongly rooted in environment, both built and organic. Some of the forms read as discovered organisms stretching out into space, whilst others have more delineated structures, interwoven like pieces of a visual puzzle with no fixed beginning or end. They are shapeshifters, at once familiar and strange, often fragments and layered from multiple firings. They balance carefully, like branches of coral rooting themselves amidst a tidal swell or intimate artefacts tentatively brought to light.
Manuela Falcão (1991, Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an artist who lives and works in Lisbon. Falcão utilises intuitive and experimental processes of moulding, glazing and firing to imbue each of her ceramic sculptures with a distinctive identity and dynamism. Following a successful career in film production she completed a course in Ceramics and Painting at Ar.Co Lisbon (2020-22) and advanced course in Visual Arts at the same institution (2022-24). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include; ‘Manuela Falcão’, Encounter, Lisbon (2026), 'Artist Rooms 2025', Encounter, Lisbon (2025), Ar.Co’s Scholarships and Finalists Exhibition, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro (2024), 'Cacto-Orquídea', curated by Ana Grebler and Pedro Liñares, Lisbon (2024), 'Berlinale Talents', Berlin (2018). Alongside private collections internationally, her work is held in the Ar.CO collection (Lisbon).
