“Naturas: The Way I See It” opens at the Paço Imperial on September 9
Claudia Jaguaribe has chosen Rio de Janeiro to present an unprecedented exhibition featuring 50 works, including a video, sculptures, and pieces created using Artificial Intelligence.
The landscape and the botanical universe were part of Claudia Jaguaribe’s life from an early age, as they were among the primary interests of her grandfather, Francisco, a geographer and author of a significant portion of Brazilian cartography. This early attraction to the subject proved decisive in the artist’s trajectory, sharpening her gaze and leading her to delve deeper into the landscape and the various aspects of nature. “Naturas: The Way 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 2004 series “Tudo é Sofia” (Everything is Sofia) and extends to more recent, previously unseen works created with Artificial Intelligence in “Viveiro” (Nursery), from 2023. With a busy schedule both nationally and internationally—having completed projects at the Usina de Arte (Recife), held exhibitions in São Paulo, and participated this year in the Festival Off and On, Brasil Imprevisto, in Arles (France), where she exhibited on an outdoor screen—Jaguaribe chose Rio to showcase this selection of her older and more current works, all of 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 created analogically, using a simple pinhole camera, while the latest pieces utilize digital photography and, in their most advanced stage, incorporate AI.
