“Naturas: As I See It” opens at the Paço Imperial on September 9
Claudia Jaguaribe chooses Rio de Janeiro to present an unprecedented exhibition featuring 50 works, including a video, sculptures, and pieces created through Artificial Intelligence.
The landscape and the botanical universe were part of Claudia Jaguaribe's life from an early age, as they were among the favorite interests of her grandfather Francisco, a geographer and author of a significant portion of Brazilian cartography. This early attraction to the theme was decisive in the artist's trajectory, sharpening her gaze and deepening her focus on the landscape and aspects of nature. “Naturas: As I See It,” which opens on September 9 at the Paço Imperial and is curated by Heloísa Amaral Peixoto, brings together works that are part of a research project that began with the series “Tudo é Sofia” (Everything is Sofia) in 2004 and extends to more recent, previously unseen works created using Artificial Intelligence in “Viveiro” (Nursery) in 2023. With a busy schedule both nationally and internationally—having completed projects at Usina de Arte (Recife), exhibitions in São Paulo, and participation this year in the Festival Off and On, Brasil Imprevisto, in Arles (France), where she exhibited on an outdoor screen—Claudia chose the city of Rio to showcase this selection of her older and more current works, which are entirely focused on environmental issues. Occupying the Amarela and Mestre Valentim rooms, the exhibition presents a dual investigation: a particular vision on how to portray landscape and nature, and the radical changes that have occurred in photography within our visual culture. The initial works were made analogically, with a simple pinhole camera, while the latest ones use digital photography and, in their most advanced stage, include AI.
