ARTIST STATEMENT

Cities and how we relate to them are a predominant theme in my work. My interest is mainly about the perception and awareness of how urban environment affects the way we see the cities, how it can determine dwellers behaviors, and the differences between public and private spaces.

Photography is my main medium and I like to use it to think about aspects of everyday life that the banality of habits made us forget that we might question. Photography for me is not only a way of seeing but mostly a reminder that the view is always partial, that it can always be opposed, that there is much more outside the frame.

Besides photography, I have also worked with video, installation and artist's books. I understand that each project has its own needs so the medium is not a limitation, it can always be changed. The influence of my previous education in Graphic Design is quite apparent in my productions, both by formal care in the compositions, as by the need to clearly communicate the concepts I am working with.

BIOGRAPHY

Brazilian artist with BA in Graphic Design and Visual Arts – Photography. She completed her MFA in Visual Poetics at UFRGS in 2013. In the same year, she received the Pierre Verger National Prize of Photography and the Itamaraty Prize of Contemporary Arts. She had participated in a great number of exhibitions and did already four solo exhibitions being them (de)construction, in 2008, The Color Scale of Things, in 2009, Somewhere between here and there, 2013 and Known from View, in 2013. In 2009 she published her first book, The Color Scale of Things. In 2015 she was selected by The Swatch Art Peace Hotel for a 6 months art-in-residence program in Shanghai – China. Currently her work is focused on the perception of places, the city life, and the relationship between seeing and being seen in public and private spaces.