“The island”

Maria Klabin is an artist who has found in painting a field of action for processes of reflection, inquiry, and notes on simple observation and absorption of the surroundings. Her paintings in recent years are often landscapes that sometimes include figures, sometimes suggest presences; on the border between reason and irrationality, between objectivity and the subjective and poetic potential of an image.

She graduated in painting and art history from Brandeis University in 1999, where she won the Susan May Green Award for painting. She completed her master's degree at Central Saint Martin in London, England, in 2002.

In 2017, Maria Klabin held her fifth solo exhibition at the Silvia Cintra + Box 4 gallery, after exhibiting her work at the same venue in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2014, when she used the beach landscape as a stage for a study on time and movement. In her new phase, the artist refers to a labyrinthine world of echoes, reflections and repetitions, in which public and intimate spaces merge, leading to a reflection on questions of representation and reality, as well as on the individual process of painting and shared experience. Among the group exhibitions in which she has participated, the highlights are "Arquivo Geral", at the Jardim Botânico (Rio de Janeiro, 2004); "Transit", at the Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, 2004) and "Além da Imagem", at the Centro Cultural Telemar (Rio de Janeiro, 2005). Her work is part of the collections of the Museu de Arte Moderna, RJ and Itaú Cultural, SP.