Paula Giordano is a photographer and visual artist. She was born, lives, and works in Belém, Pará. Her research and photography projects seek to engage with the expression of feelings and emotions, related to human existential dilemmas, as well as documentary work that explores anthropology by investigating human relationships with the environment and spirituality. Currently, she works in photography and video art, focusing on the relationship between body, image, and light. She has held three solo exhibitions, supported by state-level public grants. She participates in national and international group exhibitions. Her works are in the following public collections: Museu im Spital Grunberg (Germany), Museu de Belas Artes (Rio de Janeiro), Museu de Artes Plásticas de Anápolis (GO), Museu de Arte Sacra (Sacred Art Museum) in Belém, Pará, and Galerias Benedito Nunes and Theodoro Braga (Beneficial Art Gallery) in Belém, Pará.
Catarse de Devoção / Catharsis of Devotion
My work is structured around two main languages: photography and, more recently, video art. I’m interested in the study of existential dilemmas. In my work, I see the possibility of creating dialogues, provoking reflections, and exploring with the camera how light and movement generate images replete with ambiguity, symbolism, and contradictions. The activation of my creative processes is closely linked to psychic issues. Subjected to provocations and questioning, I allow myself to be contaminated by sensations, feelings, and emotions that serve as a starting point for me to explore images originating from my conscious and unconscious, conjuring up a universe of symbols, sensations, and expressions, feeling free to distort reality and reach dreamlike realms.
I’m also developing a long-term research project in the field of documentary photography that explores humankind’s relationship with spirituality and the divine. I travel to various Brazilian cities in search of these stories, seeking to create images that serve as bridges, that communicate not only visually but also emotionally. My portraits aren’t about people; they’re about shared experiences, about ancestry, about the symbolic space where individual memory dissolves into collective memory. My work has an ethical and aesthetic commitment to otherness.
Paula Giordano
