Yla, 2021

Claudia  

From a very young age, Claudia naturally gravitated towards artistic creation. Today, as a visual artist and manager of "Claudia's Workshops" (studios/gallery/café), she has found a perfect balance between creating and teaching. Eager to exchange ideas, share her knowledge, and pass on her expertise, she creates murals, exhibits in galleries, and also works on commission. Faces, fragments of bodies, gazes—Claudia presents women. She tells their stories, reveals them, unveils them, and never exhibits them. The detail of a body, a mouth releasing the warmth of life, the euphoria of a dance—each of her creations is a situation, a narrative connecting the individual to their emotions. Her paintings, created with dry pastels and acrylic splashes on paper, are a mirror of our own impulses, blending fragility and strength. This technical duality allows her to explore a balance between precision of line and spontaneity of gesture. By projecting intimacy with complete safety, by capturing the explosion without freezing it, Claudia delicately expresses her profound esteem for women. Neither virgins nor madonnas, they are revisited as amazons, as muses, constantly reinvented, in full metamorphosis, in perpetual rebirth.