Eighteen images to watch time go by Exhibition

The manipulation of a family photographic archive is the starting point for this exhibition, which brings together a video and a polyptych of photographic reproductions. Based on a single photograph depicting a group of people, possibly a family, the works combine cropping the photographic reproduction with an exploration of the passage between reality and fiction. In the polyptych, a sequence of eighteen reproductions progressively crops the figures, alluding to their gradual disappearance. The video revisits this same operation, making the process of removing the figures visible.

12:OCT  21H15  Opening

13-16 OCT  15H00-18H00  
Aro Estúdio

Clara de Cápua

Clara de Cápua (Jaú, 1984) is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans the performing and visual arts. She currently lives in Portugal, where she is pursuing a PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Grant No. 2024.00306.BD). She holds an MA in Arts (2010) and a BA in Performing Arts (2005), both from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. After working for several years as an actress in theatre productions and a feature film, she turned her focus to the visual arts in 2017, working primarily with drawing, video, and photographic intervention. Her research centres on processes of disappearance and the tension between presence and absence within the image. Her solo exhibitions include Todos os rios são o mesmo rio / Allar ár eru sama áin (Akureyri, Iceland, 2025) and Desaparição (Disappearance) (Porto, Portugal, 2024). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and festivals, including the 8th Espinho International Art Biennial (Portugal, 2025), the Boreal Screendance Festival (Iceland, 2024), the Maia Contemporary Art Biennial 2023 (Portugal), the 22nd Cerveira International Art Biennial (Portugal, 2022), Paadmaan Video Event #2 (Iran, 2021), the 16th Guarulhos National Contemporary Art Salon (Brazil, 2020–21), the 15th SIMULTAN Festival (Romania, 2020), and the 3rd Mostra Diversa (Brazil, 2019). Between 2019 and 2022, she was represented by LONA Galeria in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works are held in private collections, as well as in the public collections of the Museum of Sexual Diversity (MDS) and Ar: Acervo Rotativo, both in São Paulo. She has participated in several international artist residencies, including ZSenne Art Lab (Brussels, Belgium, 2023), Skammdegi AiR (Ólafsfjörður, Iceland, 2018–19), and the Brashnar Creative Project (Skopje, North Macedonia, 2017). Her video works have been screened in Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Romania, Latvia, Belgium, Portugal, and Iran.