SELF PORTRAITS

AUTUMN/WINTER_ September 2024

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Not on Forbes & Over 30 _ 2023

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Carolina is a multidisciplinary artist who intertwines music, short stories, and digital works. In a frank, fun, and skillful way on the figures of speech, the artist explores introspective themes, little explored or accepted in contemporary society, but which are inherent in all human beings.

Through works that combine self-portraits with short stories, visitors will connect with emotions and feelings that are normally avoided but universal, and explored in an intimate and frank way by the artist. Thus, we make room for the questioning about emotions such as anxiety, ego, addictions, isolation, standards of beauty, and the relativity of success. Furthermore, we will present the artist's vision of how these feelings are not necessarily negative, but indisputably important.

Through the intersection of self-portraits, stories, videos, musical productions, and small installations, NOT ON FORBES AND OVER 30 also explores the relativity of success. Carolina, aged 33, like many people of her generation, believes that success goes far beyond money. Mental health and healthy relationships with others, our minds, and our bodies are essential for wholeness, or to avoid sinking into chaos.

The figures of speech that emerge from the playful and reflective analysis of everyday objects eloquently illustrate complex themes and taboos. They show us the depth of these subjects, allowing us to explore the diversity of human experience. NOT ON FORBES AND OVER 30 challenges conventional notions of success, confronts taboos, and celebrates the beauty found in the often unexplored depths of our shared humanity.

The artist's ability to bring her vulnerability to consciousness in a frank language, and use everyday elements day in her works, allows us to reflect on complex themes, being faced simply and directly. We seek, through this small exhibition, the immersion of visitors through different artistic languages on profound themes, which will be treated with frankness, fun and uniqueness.

Thais Domingues (Odisseia Project)

Sneak Peek:

ASHTRAY ARCHITECTURE

I used to smoke because my hands were empty and in need of purpose

I had to make myself busy

But at some point

I found myself burdened with an abundance of useless waterproof tools, swimming in circles inside an ashtray where I tried to build a brutalist ashy home

You can change your habits whenever you want

You just need to have good storytelling to convince yourself to do it

And another one to get back on it

The possibility to come and go

Is what I call

Heaven

RIDICULOUS AND OVER THE TOP

Ideas are cool, but the most crucial moment is the one when you put yourself out there and show off

It is in the moment of fearless exhibition, where vulnerability flirt with the possibility of failure and embarrassment,

there, is where true value emerges

Lead by example, not in perfection grace

Because what truly defines your mettle is the relentless dedication to deliver, keep riding, time and time again

Let us honor this unwritten code, as those who criticize the labors of others often fail to present their own opus

While their theoretical prowess may impress, the arena of action presents a different narrative

Embrace the sacred space of failure ideas

Make space every day to maybe, be a complete disaster

PLAYING IT WRONG

After my good years doing my daily 4-3-6 hour meditations trying to forgive and forget

I started having panic attacks at night

Who knew that the absence of anger could birth such a wicked nightmare, fractured into monthly installments that devoured eight precious years of existence

Polite breakdowns became my pièce de résistance, a delicate and chic dance of whispered screams that only true connoisseurs of agony could appreciate

I was afraid to see the truth and confront myself realistically

I didn't want to seem vain, crazy or self-centered

I have deprived myself of a lie that others tell

I turned my back to the mirror

I cover myself up

I shut the fuck up, so I would not bother anyone

In this game, the fear of my reflection shows their real one

it’s not about me in the end uh

It’s a relief to be back.