“Narcissus”

The use of glass as a medium came from the artist's need to bring something wet to the landscapes that touches the eye when we are facing the sea. Although the starting point is photographs taken from the media, this is not a documentary work; the image is generated by hybrid means where photography and drawing merge into several layers of images and meanings, fragmenting and redistributing the space, giving rise to a new landscape where the veracity of photography begins to be questioned. Glass, with its transparency and liquid properties, adds something to the drawing that paper lacks. The experimentation with the medium also stems from her search for impure expressive means, mixing perception and expression, eye and hand, printing and construction.

The absence of people does not imply the absence of the human. The human appears as a kind of specter, as an immaterial residue that produces a movement that runs through many of the images. It is as if the people had just left the scene, transforming us into spectators of a world tired of human presence. Faced with these images, we end up in a kind of suspension between the perception of places we have never been and non-places in which we are constantly.

The Cycles of Nature - a recurring theme in the artist's work, previously represented by the seas, trees, winds, the flight of birds, the passage of time... are metaphors of natural cycles that repeat themselves perfectly, such as the seasons, our breathing, the movement of the tides, day and night... Since the Earth is a closed system, all things transform as a consequence of each other, for better or for worse, maintaining the continuous flow of life that makes us all connected. This is not an environmental or ecological vision, but the enormous perplexity in the face of such perfection and beauty.

Claudia has exhibitions at the Walter Wültrich Foundation – Basel, Switzerland; Museu da Republica, RJ – and several other individual and collective exhibitions in galleries and institutions.