“Dive #6”

In her research, Deborah Engel proposes a reinvention of contemplation, taking as her interest issues related to expanded photography, the experimentation of perspective and framing, and kinetics. Thus, she expands the function of the mere representative record of reality; and affirms a new function of photography in contemporary art, in which the spectator can be provoked to question the world through the work of art. The artist deals with photographic art, producing reliefs that, when seen frontally, are perceived as a plane, but that, when activated, cause the experience, as poetic as it is instinctive, of apprehension of reality, through the vision of a photograph – which could be a film – allowing one to be moved by it.

He has held solo and group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Among the group exhibitions are: "Monument in Miniature", ABC in Rio (NY); "In Search of Territory", Centre D' Art Santa Monica, (Barcelona, ​​Spain); "Frestas, Sorocaba Triennial of Contemporary Art", SESC Sorocaba (Sorocaba, SP); "16th and 19th Cerveira Biennials" (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal); "Dialogues of the Collection", Instituto Camões (Vigo, Galicia); "New Acquisitions - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection 2007-2010", Museum of Modern Art of RJ; "Arte Pará", Historical Museum of Pará (Belém, PA); and the solo exhibitions "Diving", Portas Vilaseca Gallery; "Imaginary Plan", Virgílio Gallery (São Paulo); "The Space that Moves", Studio X Rio de Janeiro; "Possible Landscapes", Artur Fidalgo Gallery, among others.

In 2011 he received the New Artist and Acquisition Awards from the XVI Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal.