Claudia Jaguaribe

Claudia Jaguaribe is a photographer who develops work focused on the issue of urban landscape, the environment, and especially issues on the representation of the real as a conceptual record, mixing reality and subjectivity. The materiality of her works questions the very nature of photography. It expands the traditional formats of photography, transforms images into photo-sculptures, and integrates and uses video and the internet in her installations. Her work presented is a creation of the public benches (2022), each one in tiles of a different model using images of references from the culture of Pernambuco. Different sizes. “Since I was a child, I have lived with tiles as a strong expression of art. In my house there was a wall right at the entrance with modernist tiles and every time I traveled to the Northeast, I visited relatives’ houses, churches, and squares where I saw all kinds of tiles. It always fascinated me to see symbols, drawings, and stories in this format. Today contemporary photography includes several forms of printing, among them on the tile. In this project, I continue this visual research with tiles, proposing dialogues between contemporary and a traditional support. To dialogue with Usina de Arte, I proposed the project of a set of tile benches, in an appropriation of the traditional Portuguese tile art that so influenced Brazilian art from the colonial period, through the baroque to the contemporary. The work is composed of a body of images that range from references to local popular art to historical images, maps, and photographs, images of the sugarcane culture, composing a visual narrative of the history of the Usina region and the city of Recife.” CJ Claudia Jaguaribe, 1955, born in Rio de Janeiro, lives and works in São Paulo.