Marcela Florido
Welcome to our third episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Marcela Fl\xf3rido. We recorded in late June 2020.\nWe talk with Marcela about her experiences in New York as an artist, the community at her studio building, the affects of COVID-19 on artists, ballet, identity of the figure in her paintings, her experiences as a Brazilian artist and remembering home.\nMarcela Fl\xf3rido is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York.\nFollow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art.\nStay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news.\nAudio timestamps below:\n0:00 - Intro music\n0:17 - Podcast introduction\n0:35 - Marcela Fl\xf3rido biography and upcoming\n2:07 - Beginning\n2:41 - Nearby the studio\n4:01 - Interacting with people and the studio\n4:38 - Marcela\u2019s experience at the studio towards beginning of COVID\n5:50 - Community at the studio\n6:59 - Living in New York as an artist\n8:03 - What have you been working on at home?\n8:12 - Exhibitions re-scheduled\n9:19 - Exhibition deadlines\n10:31 - Freedom to experiment and part-time\n11:42 - New York hustle\n12:07 - How has your work been affected by the pandemic?\n14:33 - What kind of materials do you use for the drawings?\n16:43 - Working with scale\n18:49 - Growing up practicing ballet\n22:26 - Beginning of body awareness and femininity in Marcela\u2019s painting\n25:47 - After ballet\n26:35 - When did you know you wanted to be an artist?\n29:20 - Studio ritual\n31:00 - Schedule for studio time\n33:32 - Reflecting on silver lining of pandemic\n36:16 - Production of work and creation\n37:53 - Identity of the figures in Marcela\u2019s paintings\n42:58 - The meaning of the paintings\n44:57 - Vulnerability in the studio\n48:13 - Sharing past studio in London\n50:15 - Resetting at studio\n51:13 - Have you made night paintings? Experiences at Yale\n53:06 - Brazilian museums and the arts growing up\n54:46 - Censorship in Brazil\n55:21 - S\xe3o Paulo cultural capital\n56:50 - Marcela recent trip back home and the Amazon\n57:46 - Painting flora and home environment\n59:01 - Brazilian landscape and exoticism\n1:01:26 - Integration and relation of plant life with the figures and landscape in Marcela\u2019s paintings\n1:02:43 - Being an immigrant and remembering home\n1:03:55 - Dreaming about home\n1:04:51 - Immigrant story within the work\n1:06:18 - Being a Brazilian artist-background in British painting and Latin American art history\n1:10:26 - Thank you!