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Claudia Castro
About
Artist's statement
Through ceramic bodies and drawings that move between the figurative and the abstract, I create by exploring the limits of genuine and impulsive gestures within possible contours.
My research proposes an immersion in the experiences of the body, even the unconscious ones. The forms are born from the drawings and gain other dimensions when they encounter the materiality of ceramics.
Biography
Claudia Castro was born in 1976 in Porto Alegre, Brazil and grew up in Rio de Janeiro. She has been living and working in Lisbon since 2018.
She completed her free training in drawing and painting at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (2016), and is currently in the second year of her continuing education in ceramics at the Arco Escola de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisbon, and is taking an extension course in art education with Professor Hélio Rodrigues (Brazil).
She uses ceramics and drawing as artistic languages. Her poetics have been structured based on the relationships between the body and the unconscious.
Her work has been exhibited at Livraria Ler lento, LX Factory, Lisbon (2020), Coletivo-RJ, Rio de Janeiro (2022) and Sala Criativa, Lisbon (2023).