Celia Eid

Brazilian Contemporary Art by Celia Eid - L'île

2019

Celia Eid is a Brazilian artist born in 1952 who lives and works between Paris, France and São Paulo, Brazil. Eid graduated from the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo.

Eid collaborated with the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo and with several publishing houses: Scipione, Unesp and Edusp. In 1993, she won the Jabuti Prize for the best book cover and the best graphic project of the year in the publishing industry. In 1994, Eid published the book BD Penare. After a two-year contract at the video post-production house, Casa Blanca, she moved on to digital arts and animation cinema.

Having lived in France since 1997, Eid worked on short pieces of contemporary music, often performed by the ensemble Aleph. Le rire du Coq, with music by Dominique Clément, and Gymel, with a soundtrack by Sébastien Béranger — both directed by Eid — were presented at several of the world’s digital art and music festivals. Eid won the prize for best interactive film at the Internet film festival, Fluxus, with her animation Silent.

Dislocations, created in 2010 with the music of Sébastien Béranger, is a piece for solo piano, electroacoustic music and sculpture. The pianist interacts with the video by throwing a small light ball into the sculpture, which triggers a change in the video. Dislocations has been broadcast by several video festivals and has also been presented live in Paris, São Paulo, Stockton (USA), and Strasbourg.

Alongside her personal projects, Eid has run cartoon workshops for young children in partnership with institutions such as the Forum des Images or Le Cube. She has also created several sets for dance performances for the Compagnie Picomètre.

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