Regina Parra Featured in AS/COA Organization

VillageOneArt collaborative artist Regina Parra was featured in Americas Society about an art performance she created with Ana Mazzei that speaks to women’s struggles and resistance.

This performance is based on a character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the staff members who partook in the performance rehearsed with the artists in the days leading up to the show. They were instructed on their walks, facial expressions, and how to hold the signs.

Regina Parra has an MFA in Art History from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a BFA in Fine Arts from FAAP. She also studied theater and worked in the field with Antunes Filho (1929-2019) for many years. The connection between the performing arts—especially Greek tragedy—is present in her production as a visual artist. Her experience in directing actors and creating sets for the theater becomes evident in her videos, compositions, and performances. More recently, the body started to play a more central role in her research and concerns. She focuses on the social body of women as a place of affirmation and potential power. But at the same time, Regina perceives human bodies as vulnerable and fragile and works, precisely, with the possibility of overcoming its constraints, investigating how movements can be transformed and adapted —something she refers to as physical cleverness or malleability.

she’s trying to investigate how the exhibition can be experienced as a unique staging—where painting, performance, and sound act as elements in a deconstructed play.