Cláudia Perpétuo

From an early age Cláudia Perpétuo would tirelessly point a camera at a figure, an object or a space with this unfathomable desire to show images, moments captured in a split second, what could catch her soul. Her relationship with photography increased with the curiosity caused by a mechanical tool -- the camera -- and the possibility to use something like extension of the same tool. Scenes, observations, frames have always been there, etched in her mind. Her image of the world has always been based on "flash" that reduces the surrounding relevant to the necessary, to basics. Thus, the discovery of the possibilities of a camera, was no longer a choice, but rather the need to use it to create images that would articulate a feeling, a feeling about the world. If the peculiar look has always been part of her personality, her research interests turned to the actual reality. Symbolic issues, semiotic, the taste for elegance and refinement, have their roots in the close relationship maintained with the visual arts and literature. Cláudia gives a notorious identity to everyday scenes, with an elaborate treatment, meaning its physical footprint images. The upheaval caused by new technologies and the potential of the digital age led Cláudia to specialize in the Fluminense Society of Photography and her vocation has improved by creating the technical means surpassing what already existed. Since then, her work has traveled the world, receiving a strong acceptation in Brazil, US, Europe and Asia. She has participated in various exhibitions and sold works in Seattle, Brussels, Milan, New York and Hong Kong.