Duda Moraes Lives and works in Bordeaux (France), b. 1985

 Duda Moraes, 1985, Rio de Janeiro;

Lives and works in Bordeaux, France

Since 2020 Duda Morais has occupied a studio at L'Annexe B, (Association of artists' studios in Bordeaux), 1, Rue Jean Artus. With a degree in Industrial Design from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), she worked for five years in a textile design office, where she created prints for major Brazilian brands. Duda began her artistic life as a child, coming from a family of artists in Rio de Janeiro. Her professional career began in 2014 in Brazil, where she attended a four-week immersive drawing course. It was from there that she made her professional artistic commitment. With exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte and also two solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions, as well as an artist residency in Portugal.

In 2020, based on collage studies for her paintings, the artist began a new series with fabrics. Entitled - - - t e x t i le - - - they are compositions like those in her paintings but with new materials; textures, colours and prints already ready to acquire a work in volume, assembly and layers.

It is then that Duda's work takes on a new form, with winter tones and nobler styles thanks to velvet fabrics, silks and arabesque patterns.

Fabric work is a meeting of cultures.

After important solo and group exhibitions at Bordeaux Métropole, the Galerie du Petit Atelier and the Capelle de la Misericorde in Libourne, group exhibitions such as the Fhon association's Noyau project, ‘La Dame à la Licorne’ at the Glacières de la Banlieue, Bleu Satellite, an offshoot of the bad+ salon and the Diffractis project, an artistic journey in private gardens. She also takes part in the EAC artistic and cultural education project, with the "made in made on" project together with L'Agence Creative and in various textile workshops. In 2023 she won the Robert Coustet prize, first edition for the city of Bordeaux.