About
Gabrielle Avancini is a Brazilian photographer based in London. Her work blends personal experience with a deep exploration of identity, culture, and community. Drawing from Brazil’s rich history and diverse social landscape, Avancini’s series, such as Motherland and Queer Love, address themes of cultural preservation, love, and resistance.
Through her lens, she documents marginalized communities and complex social issues in an attempt to contribute to broader universal conversations about heritage, identity, and the struggle for recognition. She achieves this through careful consideration of her projects throughout their development and curation, with a purposeful blend of photographs and ideas. It is an approach that places the subject matter at the forefront of the decision-making process.
Avancini’s photographs empower the subject in a way that maintains and conveys the realism of their situation, whilst ensuring that they are not simply reduced to passive figures. They are the enduring protagonists in their own stories.
Exhibitions
2022
Nothing Left but Healing by Pomegranate Press
Book Release and Group Show
Agony Books
304 E. Main St (Suite B)
Richmond, VA
13 May
2021
Emersion
Copeland Gallery
Unit 9l, Copeland Park
133 Copeland Rd
London, SE15 3SN
17 - 21 November
2018
The Social Production of Space
Copeland Gallery
Unit 9l, Copeland Park
133 Copeland Rd
London, SE15 3SN
18 December
Publications
2022
Nothing Left but Healing by Pomegranate Press
2020
A2 Publication by Max Ferguson and Carlo Apostoli
Home Work 2020 by Ottoby Press
Features
2023
2022
Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition (Shortlist)
2021
The Pupil Sphere — Emersion Exhibition
The Pupil Sphere — Back Where We Started From
2020