PAULA DO PRADO
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  • exhibitions
    • quarai 2022
    • birth of sucuri 2022
    • a place where we can be together 2022
    • in the fibre of her being 2021
    • kuña/womxn 2021
    • pallay yuyay 2021
    • kalunga 2020
    • iyanla 2019
    • playdate 2018
    • lucky swag 2015
    • face to face 2014
    • odalisque 2014
    • sepiasiren 2012 *adult content*
    • mellorado 2012
    • adiafa/diyafa 2011
    • where yah from? 2010
    • rebirth 2008
    • I am...Black
  • zines + books
  • projects
    • everyday ceremony
    • Uruguay Indigenous Biennale 2023
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Adiafa/Diyafa: The Gifts of Exchange

A collaborative exhibition with fellow artist, friend and mentor Nicole Barakat exploring home, return, language and exchange as strategy for cross-conversations.Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross 15 October to 12 November 2011

Nicole Barakat and Paula do Prado collaborate for the first time in their show Adiafa/Diyafa (ضيافة): Gifts of Exchange at Cross Art Projects, Sydney (15 October - 10 November 2011).  The exhibition explores exchange as a making process as well as a broader theme within social and cultural customs of gifts of welcome and hospitality.  Inspired by the artist’s recent travels, the series of contemporary textile works engage with ideas of home/return, place/belonging, absence/presence.
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Adiafa is a Spanish word originating from the Arabic Diyafa (ضيافة) meaning hospitality.  Featuring detailed stitching, beading and text elements, the works in the exhibition have been developed out of a collaborative process of exchanging stories and experiences, materials and textile processes.  Exchange is explored as a catalyst for (self) transformation, individual and collective narrative and shared knowledge.  The true gift of exchange is its ability to initiate a distinctive dialogue.
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Nicole Barakat, Dayatna Deconstructed bag made from bed sheet (used to mail za'taar from Lebanon), foil knit, cotton thread.
41 x 34cm
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Paula do Prado, Repasador Gifted domestic cloth (tea towel gifted to my grandmother Elsa in 1989 and gifted back to me in 2009), appliqué and beading.72 x 50cm
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  • eguahé porá
  • exhibitions
    • quarai 2022
    • birth of sucuri 2022
    • a place where we can be together 2022
    • in the fibre of her being 2021
    • kuña/womxn 2021
    • pallay yuyay 2021
    • kalunga 2020
    • iyanla 2019
    • playdate 2018
    • lucky swag 2015
    • face to face 2014
    • odalisque 2014
    • sepiasiren 2012 *adult content*
    • mellorado 2012
    • adiafa/diyafa 2011
    • where yah from? 2010
    • rebirth 2008
    • I am...Black
  • zines + books
  • projects
    • everyday ceremony
    • Uruguay Indigenous Biennale 2023
    • design isolate 2020
    • meroogal 2020
    • heartstrings 2018
    • TOAF 2016 + 2017
  • interviews + talks
  • studio do prado
  • bio + cv
  • contact