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Beatrice Arraes (b. 1998, Fortaleza, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. She studied Fine Art and Graphic Design at the University of Salamanca in Spain and the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil.

Influenced by artists from her hometown such as Gustavo Diógenes and Paula Siebra, as well as painters such as Eleonore Koch and Milton Avery, Arraes paints the inherent mysteries of “Kukukaya,” a Brazilian folk song about four card players around a table. The song Kukukaya feels purposely solitary, quiet—a slow reckoning with time, where winning is never the point. Her paintings, saturated in deep hues, exist almost entirely in shadow. Her landscapes of Northeastern Brazil, untouched and wild, are small but pulse with raw energy beneath their stillness - volcanic eruptions, astronomical events, and torrential rain storms seem to appear suspended in motion, the elements in continuous transition...

Arraes says: “I think I have a very spiritual and curious relationship with nature. This is largely due to a certain affection I have for my homeland itself, a desire to belong to something. I think nature in the form of these sublime events also constitutes an internal landscape, a certain state of being.”

Sea View is pleased to present the US debut solo exhibition by Beatrice Arraes "Jogo de Mesa (Table Game)"