"Corpo Vegetal" by Giulia Yoshimura

On several occasions Giulia connected her interest in the botanical world with her childhood. Years later, this interest would turn into a broad universe where research and artistic practice meet through a dialoguing body of work. In her first solo exhibition - Corpo Vegetal - we walk through the memories of the artist's childhood walls, arriving at the murals that color the streets of Porto.

The exhibition Corpo Vegetal, by Giulia Yoshimura, presents a set of works made as part of artist's Master's Degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto; thus corresponding to a first public moment where her research and artistic practice dialogue spatially. Giulia Yoshimura aka MURA, originally from São Paulo - Brazil, lives and working in Portugal since 2021.

This exhibition, which connects a path and at the same time seems to close a cycle for the artist, meet us as an invitation to the senses, celebrating curiosity, challenging our ability to approach and empathize with the territories and species that surround us, and to life itself.

Giulia Yoshimura (Brazil, 1997), currently residing in Portugal, is of Japanese ascendent, with a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) and is a finalist in the Master's in Fine Arts program at the University of Fine Arts of Porto. She works as a visual artist and muralist. Her connection to art began in childhood, but her professional career started in 2015, finding inspiration in flora and immersing her work in botanical art.

As part of her curriculum, the artist has painted murals in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, and Germany. She won the Urban Art category of Portugal's National Youth Creators Award in 2022 and participated in the 1st Ibero-American International Glass Art Biennial in Costa Rica in 2022, where she received an honorary award. She has also taken part in other exhibitions such as the VII Espinho Art Biennial, the III Slate Biennial in Valongo, and the Tree of Virtues Award.