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

Duda Moraes - Rio de Janeiro, 1985.

Lives and works in Bordeaux, France.

Since 2020, Duda ocupies an atelier at L'Annexe B, (Association of artists' ateliers in Bordeaux), 1, Rue Jean Artus. She graduated in Industrial Design at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC-RJ, and worked for five years in a textile design office, where she created prints for major Brazilian brands. Duda started her artistic life since she was a child, she comes from a family of artists in Rio de Janeiro.

Her professional career begins 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 as well as, two solo exhibitions, several group shows as well as an artist residency in Portugal.

In 2020, from collage studies for her paintings, the artist began a new series with fabrics. Entitled - - - t e x t i le - - - are compositions like those of his paintings but with a new material; textures, color and prints, a work in volume, assembly and layers.
It is then that the work takes on a new form, more winter tones, noble styles thanks to velvet fabrics, silks and arabesque patterns.
The work on fabric is a meeting of cultures.

After important individual and collective exhibitions in Bordeaux Metropole, at the La galerie du petit atelier and at the Chappele de la Misericorde in Libourne, collective exhibitions like the project Noyau of Fhon, the "La dame a la Licorne" at the Glacières de la Banlieue, Bleu Satellite an off of the salon bad+ and the project Diffractis artistic journey in private gardens, she also participates in the project eac-artistic and cultural education, made in made on, with L'Agence Creative and in several workshops with textile work in 2023 is the winner of the Robert Coustet award, first edition for the city of Bordeaux.Médoc.