“The Fish”

In both her works on paper and in her photographs and video recordings, Carla Chaim seeks to go beyond the limits of the traditional conception of drawing. More than a support for the development of an idea, or an initial sketch of a work to be created, the drawing in her work appears essentially as a trace of the action of a body on a given support, a trace of its presence, or even the remaining sign of a gesture. Chaim works with the notion of repetition and control in her pieces, both through pre-established rules and in her physical movements in the elaboration of a drawing, for example, using the body as an important tool in this process, also thinking of it as a place for conceptual discussion exploring its physical and social limits. The subjects are varied and are linked to systemic modes of operation and organic procedural forms of development. The works do not attempt to create narratives or tell stories; they are the making itself, combining dichotomous systems: rigid rules and organic physical movements. The artist revisits real elements with eyes of experience, understanding chance as an integral part of the process. Drift, walk, move.

Graduated in Fine Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado - FAAP (2004), where she also completed a postgraduate degree in Art History (2007). Carla has participated in several artistic residencies, including "Arteles", Finland (2013) and "The Banff Centre for the Arts", Canada, (2010).

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including: "Frucht & Faulheit", Lothringer13 Halle, Munich, Germany; "CODE", Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2017); "Ao Amor do Público I", Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016); "Film Sector", Art Basel, Miami, USA (2015); "Into the Light", Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); "Ichariba Chode", Plaza North Gallery, Saitama, Japan (2015); "Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict", Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation – CIFO, Miami, USA (2014); Carla Chaim has received awards in Brazil such as CCBB Contemporâneo and Prêmio FOCO Bradesco ArtRio, both in 2015, Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo in previous years: Prêmio Funarte de Arte Contemporâneo and Prêmio Energias na Arte. In 2016, Carla was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize, where in 2017 she presented installations and photographs at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine and at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy, in a collateral event to the Venice Biennale. Her work is part of collections such as Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Miami, USA; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - SP - Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, RJ, Brazil; and Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Itamaraty, Brasília, Brazil.