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SINOPSE
This installation by Carla Chaim acts on Pombal Palace and offers a view of the exhibition space as a central part of the artistic work, merging with the piece instead of overlapping it. The architecture becomes part of the work, becoming the support of this expanded drawing. The graphite powder emerges here as a primordial material of the artwork in its various scales and plasticity. This work arose as a possibility to place as a counterpoint to the space of Carpe Diem Art and Research, a palace with adorned walls and ceilings, giving it a grey neutral and minimalist artwork. Further projects should be developed during this period at Carpe Diem Art and Research. Carla Chaim will photograph and draw the space using the graphite powder. In the photographic prints, the artist will mask some areas of the photography, filling these spaces with the powder. On white paper, the area with powder reveals itself as a drawing.

BIOGRAPHY
Carla Chaim was born and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Bachelor in Fine Arts, 2004 at FAAP – Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, where she also completed her post graduation degree in Art History, 2007. Chaim works with different medias such as drawings, videos and installations. Through experiments with rigid processes and random results, she seduces the viewer into a world of balance in progress, a territory never ready. Chaim tries to approach a wide range of everyday issues, bringing them to her studio and rethinking new ways and new relationships. Her works have coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections. The artist has the desire to control the work, both in pre-established rules before the execution of it, as in her physical movements during the making of a drawing, bringing the body as an important tool in this process. Carla Chaim won several awards such as Funarte Award for Contemporary Art and Energias na Arte Award for Young Artists at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, where she also held an exhibition. Her work is part of collections such as Ella Fontanals – Cisneros and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itamaraty, Brazil.

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