Either as installations, paintings, video works or books, Priscila Fernandes’ practice is rooted in an ongoing research into education, play, and the dialectics of work and leisure. Through a speculative and fictional approach, her work raises concrete questions about the idea of individual and collective freedom, especially in the context of the widespread precariousness and the threatening of violence in our society.
Priscila Fernandes has exhibited at Live Uncertainty – 32nd São Paulo Biennial; Lesson 0 at Foundation Joan Miró, Barcelona; Back to the sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavik Art Museum; Playgrounds at Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory, at TENT, Rotterdam; and Leisure School at CIAJGS, Guimarães. Other publications include The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School (2014), The Waterslide of Abstract Art (2022) and Idleness’ Owl (2022).
She is the Head of Department of BEAR – Base for Experiment, Art and Research, the BA Fine Art of ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL.