A body that loves is a body that cuddles until...
An ocean. The masculinist world bombards cozy homes, and I refuse to rest on it.
the rubble.
— CAUMONT
The artist constructs, through photography and drawing,
Through painting and collage, a sensitive cartography of body, desire, and permanence emerges. Her work spans years of investigation around four recurring forces: the incessant search for a dwelling place; the impossibility of silencing desire before it finds shelter; the refusal to accept the arid places imposed on women as the only form of existence; and the decision to keep the turbulent waters within until the body can finally rest upon the ocean.
Her work emerges from an attempt to understand the female body beyond the structures predetermined by the patriarchal perspective. The images she creates operate as timeless layers of memory, dream, and fabulation, composing dreamlike narratives where women self-manage their fears, desires, and forms of survival. Between gestures of affection, ancestry, spirituality, and insubordination, her works imagine worlds where existing can also mean finding comfort.
In her work, there are bodies that traverse time in search of self-affirmation—deviant bodies that become vectors of hope in the face of the world's violence. Water, the moon, prayers, encounters between women, and ancestral memories permeate her images as conjuring forces: ways of weaving together other possible futures between the visible and the invisible.
The artist transforms anguish into poetic and political language. She refuses to rest on the ruins of the cozy homes bombarded by patriarchy and makes the image a space for the radical reinvention of life.
In her work, a body that loves is also a body capable of embracing an entire ocean.
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"...this personal perspective emerges in Claudia's works through the poetics of self-discovery as a woman... painted in forms and colors that reveal the search for truth. A woman who embraces her desires, who opens windows to glimpse new worlds, who recognizes herself as a creator and pro-creator."
Iraci Saviane — art therapist, art educator, and professor at the Sedes Sapientiae Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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"...It is an awakening of enchanting images that are not lost: they remain inscribed on the skin, in memories, in the body inhabited by a diversity of dimensions. The dream takes shape; joy and fear mingle, as if the very mystery of desire vibrated between reach and abyss. In them emerge ancestralities, the feminine, anger, fear, love, and the sacred—dimensions that unfold in collages and montages as if conversing with one's own unconscious."
Cristiane Miryam Drumond de Brito — postdoctoral fellow in Occupational Therapy and researcher in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis.