Claudia Jaguaribe likes to play with the representation of reality. She often cuts and reassembles her photographs, creating new formats. She transforms them into sculptures or multimedia installations and never hesitates to bring together the unlikely. The resulting images are not a testament to what exists and what can be seen. Her work thus revisits the history of the landscape by introducing new elements. It is an invitation to discuss representation codes.
The result of this reflection shows images where the landscape is not presented as intact nature but as a construction that gives it a picturesque, idealized and often fantastic appearance. Claudia, who lives between São Paulo, a Brazilian megalopolis, an endless ocean of gray buildings and Rio de Janeiro, the garden city par excellence, seems to create an oxymoron by combining this mixture of bitumen-petroleum and deadly aggregates with Brazilian flowers and their sexuality that allows reproduction.
With it, we lose our discernment. The superimposed images of flowers symbiotically penetrate the body of asphalt cut out in the shape of plants. From gray to artificial to saturated neon colors, she offers us a playful triumph of the hybrid celebrating the nuptials of Eros and Thanatos.
Marc Pottier
Curator
