BIA MELO

How did you get into the art world?
The creative impulse has dwelled in me since I understand myself by people. As a teenager, I decided that I would attend the degree in Architecture and Urbanism, but during this way, I realized that my joy and my pleasure landed on the unpretentious create and that communicated something from within. It was then, that at the end of graduation, I had already understood and assumed that I would dedicate myself to Art.
The first professional contacts emerged in 2011, from the meeting with artists who occupied collective workshops, exchanging daily ideas and experiences.
In 2012, I participated in my first official exhibition, in pair with the artist Daniel Araújo, called Sobre o Vento e o Espelho, proposed in a cultural edict of the state of Pernambuco. From there, the flow of projects, invitations, jobs and creations only increased and followed its course.

What do you understand as Fine Arts?
The visual arts are creative and nutritious impulses that can mess with the five senses, reaching other levels of non-physical understanding. They are genuine expressions that communicate the relationship between the artist and the environment, using the most diverse materials and supports to establish an exchange between the artists himself and those who contemplate his art.

How do you define your Art?
I think my art is much more defined by those who see it. It is changeable and reveals in itself the path already taken. Although I do not act as an architect, spatial abstraction is present in my way of seeing and translating what I see. They are lines, planes, voids, geometries and organicist, identified inside and outside my body. The vibration of the chosen colors is also something strong, which happens almost instinctively, nourished by the internal landscape and the external, tropical landscape. Transit between the abstract and the figurative, always seeking what is almost hidden.

What are your greatest references in the world of the Arts?
To name a few references: Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Alexander Calder, Lina Bo Bardi, Burle Marx, Delfim Amorim, Athos Bulcão.

What are the main themes used in your works? And why is that?
As stated earlier, my expression is constantly changing. In the beginning, my works were essentially abstract and geometric, even generating space installations. Then I became more interested in seeking abstraction in figurative elements. The bodies and their movements have taken over my theme since 2019. But there is something always present and striking: the colors, their sudden contrasts and the movements