My practice revolves around the tension between familiarity and abjection, it is about creating alien worlds from the everyday.
Through a meditation and transformation of the mundane, I give time and attention to what surrounds me to unlock their unnoticed potential. I choose objects that aren’t deemed of great importance and lavish them with the attention and close observation that is normally reserved for things of great value.
I am drawn to organic matter, primarily food, because like me, it lives, bleeds, and dies. Its skin, organs, and fluids are a mirror of my own, giving me the space to create intimate, cryptic anagrams of myself. My internal reflections materialize in the flesh-like landscapes and haptic texture of my work.
I use staging, lighting, photography, and digital manipulation to abstract the object from its original form. I am fascinated by the possibility of the micro and its capacity to house curious, defamiliarized things. By using manipulated photographs as a reference, I indulge in high levels of details in my paintings, producing visuals that resemble micrographs. My interest in the minute also translates into the scale of my work. Working on a small scale fosters an intimate encounter between the viewer and the piece, an approximation that mirrors my own process of closely engaging with the original objects.
Luiza Caramez (b. 1999) was born in São Paulo and raised between São Paulo and Hong Kong. In 2022, she earned a BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from Parsons School of Design in New York.
Following graduation, Caramez returned to Brazil and joined São Ateliê, a collective art studio for contemporary Brazilian artists, where she contributed to collaborative exhibitions and open studios. Caramez also has experience in the arts and cultural sector, having worked at renowned institutions in both São Paulo and New York as well as exhibited her artwork in both cities.
Currently Luiza Caramez is based in Paris and is pursuing a research-based MA in Art History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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