Jacqueline Machado de Souza
For Jacqueline Machado de Souza art is an embedded activity that is constantly discovering and elaborating its position. Her artistic practice is based on the diverse ways in which she engages with drawing, photography, video and content from her personal archive. In a wide array of processes and procedures she explores the possibilities of these media, articulating an extensive vocabulary on the nature of the image.
For the series Na Palma da Mão (In the Palm of the Hand), 2025, she developed a distinctive technique using traditional Sennelier ink, opening a discourse on the interplay between the support and the supported, while recalling the surrealist method of decalcomania. The result is an idiosyncratic cosmos of layered images. Depending on the viewer’s distance, the spectator may experience a fusion between the sensations of carrying and being carried. The landscapes created by the artist’s hand give wings to the human capacity for pareidolia and imagination: a cycle of micro-oases amid a world in turmoil.
Since her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt (Belgium) she exhibited on numerous venues, including at the Prince Claus Fund in The Hague, Museum Het Domein in Sittard, Balin House Projects in London, the 4th and 6th Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels in Liège, and the Memorial Edson Queiroz, Brazil.
Works were acquired by Defauwes Collection (Netherlands), Annemie van Laethem Collection (Belgium), Guy & Riet Hendrickx Collection (Antwerpen), Artotheek (The Hague), Zuyderland Medical Center (Heerlen), and other (private) collections.
Selection 30 x 30
Works by Jacqueline Machado de Souza
CURRICULUM VITAE
Solo exhibitions
2025: Prima Matéria, Razão Poética, Memorial Edson Queiroz, Cascavel (CE), Brazil
2018: Felicidade Clandestina; with Martín La Roche, Dominicanen, Maastricht, Netherlands
2017: The Tutorial Drawings, HAE, Maastricht
2014: 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège/Maastricht Pixels of Paradise; with Sylvie Macías Díaz (Theater aan het Vrijthof)
2012: Regardless of Other, ‘T Brandweer, Maastricht, Netherlands
2008: Video show at Filmhouse Lumière, Maastricht
2007: Back Yard, Balin House Projects, London, UK
2007: Futuros – Atrium MC, Heerlen, Netherlands
2006/2007: Two moments in the spectrum of reality – Traders Pop Gallery/Wild West Active Space, Maastricht
2002: CCHA/Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2001: Prince Claus Fund of Culture, The Hague, Netherlands
2001/2002: Traders Pop Gallery/Wild West Active Space, Maastricht
1999: Van Laethem Gallery, Oud-Rekem, Belgium
Group exhibitions (selected)
2026: Black/White, Marieke Severens Gallery, Maastricht
2025: Jacqueline Machado de Souza, Gabriele Fettolini, Bas Coenegracht, Marieke Severens Gallery, Maastricht
2025: Der Mensch braucht das Bild, Collection Defauwes, Museum Valkenburg
2024: (Kunst)zinnig, Kunstcollectie Zuyderland, Heerlen
2022: Harlindis & Relindis, Maaseik, Belgium
2021: 15 jaar PlateauKunst, organized by Wanda Reiff, Margraten, Netherlands
2017: PlateauKunst, Margraten
2011: 10th Pink Screen Film Festival at Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
2011: Tijdelijk verblijf, curated by Annemie van Laethem and Tania Rumpf, Oud-Rekem, Belgium
2010: ‘Lucht is tastbaarder dan mijn gedachte’, curated by Annemie van Laethem, Oud-Rekem, Belgium
2007: Yes, subject matterS, Dagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
2006: O que nos cerca, Video art and Photography, Dagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerpen
2006: Brazil Art Lounge, TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2005: Second Edition of Price Tower Arts Center Video Art Series (Circle Cinema Tulsa), Bartlesville, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
2005: Kunsttour, Maastricht, Netherlands
2005: ‘On Love’, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
2004: ‘4. Biennale Internationale de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels’, Liège, Belgium
1996: ‘Translumen 100% Chlorophile’, Fashion Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
