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I am an artist and art historian born in Brazil. I have a second citizenship in Italy and a third in the US, where I live. I am a mother of two young children (5 and 2 years old) and dedicate most of my daily hours to their care, which I consider the most significant source of Knowledge currently in my life. After accumulating years of academic research, I continue to work now on a theoretical perspective that is challenged and enriched by the practical, sensitive, and all-encompassing life experience of mothering. Every one of us begins our lives in a womb; this shared beginning is the fruitful theoretical starting point to which my work keeps returning to.

Debora Faccion Grodzki is a painter whose works embody the vitality of motherhood. She utilizes abstraction to embrace her young children’s Intuition and decisiveness as they explore the world. Coming from South America, Debora’s paintings carry forward the experiential attitude of contemporary Latin American artists, such as Lygia Clark and Celeida Tostes. Bearing the added labor of caring for children as an immigrant, painting becomes an everyday tool in the home, a form of play, and, hopefully, a catalyst for new encounters. Debora has a Ph.D. in Art History from the State University of New York in Binghamton (2022) and an MA in Social Communication from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil (2012).