The artist from Minas Gerais, a participant in the 18th Festival, discusses her career and her involvement with painting and video. According to her, being a painter does not mean defending a medium, but rather using it as one among many which can be chosen by the creator based on the matter at hand. She also tells of how she strives to remain open to contaminations of painting by other media, as in her Túnel painting, which flirts with image in motion. She describes the creative process for this piece and its counterpart, O Russo, also shown at the 2013 edition of Southern Panoramas. She explains that both are part of a line of research that lasted over six years, and are based on images taken from the internet, usually by anonymous authors. After culling them from the web, the painter offers herself as a channel for interpreting and enacting these images, opening herself to the plurality of styles that these pictures provide. She also talks about her current production, in which she works with more abstract languages.
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