Emelina Soares

Emelina Soares is an Indian artist, art historian, and educator who uses site-specific installation, animation, projection, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Common themes of her works include ecology, ethology, migration, and cultural exchanges.[1]

Emelina Soares
Born
Doha, Qatar
NationalityIndian
EducationEmily Carr University of Art and Design, MFA

University College of London, MA

Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA

Early life and education

She completed her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, in addition with an MA from the University College of London Qatar under Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[2]

Art practice

Research
Recontextualizing Saint Thomas created by Soares

Soares used oriental references as inspiration, combined with prominent saints from India, the Middle East and Portugal to create contemporary appropriations in the series of recontextualizing saints. Her practice explored patterns of carpets in combination with sand from the dunes of Qatar, and natural dyes from India,[3] to create ephemeral Sand Carpets. The changing patterns of the carpets due to guests walking on the piece reflects her multinational identity.[4]

Sand Carpet by Soares.[3]

Her practice consists of site-specific installations such as Hidden in Plain Site, that discuss the adaptive attitude of migrating and invasive bodies within changing perspectives of space and place.[1]

Soares participated as an artist and facilitator for the Leaning Out of Windows project led by Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig, where she collaborated with a physicist from TRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator centre, and faculty from Emily Carr University, to create an interdisciplinary project on the study of dark matter.[5][6][7][8]

Hidden in Plain Site is a site-specific installation created by Soares.

Exhibitions

Soares was part of several group exhibition such as Shifting Identities,[9] Introspection / Extrospection,[10] Tracing Erasure[11] in Vancouver, Canada. Qatar Contemporary Art and Photography in Russia,[12] Ruwad: Pioneering artists of Qatar[13] in Washington DC. Art Leaders Network and Contemporary Art Qatar[14] in Germany. Built/ Unbuilt Home/ City at the Kathmandu Triennale 2017.[15] AlBahie Auction House, Qatar Foundation: Emerging Artists, Art and Medicine VCU Qatar,[16] Fire Station Artists-in-residence show,[17] Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, Katara Art Centre, and Qatar Museums: Create and Inspire (Qatar Brazil).[18]

References
  1. "LOoW Participating Artists". LOoW.
  2. VCUQatar. "Painting & Printmaking Alumna Emelina Soares Features in Vancouver Exhibition". qatar.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  3. "Largest survey of Qatari contemporary art to open in Berlin despite ongoing blockade". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. Connolly, Kate (2017-12-10). "Qatar's dynamic young artists showcased in major Berlin exhibition". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  5. "Exhibition 2020 | Leaning Out Of Windows". Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  6. "Home | TRIUMF : Canada's particle accelerator centre". www.triumf.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  7. "Leaning Out Of Windows |". Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  8. "PARTICIPATING ARTISTS | Leaning Out Of Windows". Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  9. "Qatar contemporary art exhibition opens in Berlin". www.thepeninsulaqatar.com. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  10. Vancouver, 520 East 1st Avenue; Canada, BC V5T 0H2 (2019-03-11). "Introspection/Extrospection | MFA Thesis Show". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  11. "Tracing Erasure | AHVA - The Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory". ahva.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  12. "Qatar Contemporary: Art and Photography". Qatar Museums. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  13. "Ruwad". Qatar-America Institute. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  14. "Contemporary Art Qatar". Qatar Museums. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  15. mekhlimbu (2017-04-15). "Build/Unbuild Home:city Art Projrct 2017 curated by Dr. Dina Bangdel collateral event with Kathmandu Triennale 2017". Mekh Limbu. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  16. VCUQatar. "Chromosthesia, Exploring the Intersection of Art and Medicine". www.qatar.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  17. "Artists in Residence Exhibition 2015/2016". Qatar Museums. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  18. "Winners of 'Create & Inspire 2014' Explore Brazil in Artistic Journey of a Lifetime". Islamic Arts Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

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