Flavia Regaldo is a visual artist from Brazil, currently living in Portugal. Her work seeks to give shape to invisible forces and tension common to matter, considering rhythm and chaos through micro and macro perspectives and rethinking natural/social dichotomies.
The project Vertigo, to be developed at Cité Internationale des Arts residency, is part of a broader project entitled After Departure, a chapter in a series of stories and imagery narratives on the mineral matter and its human/cosmic dimensions. The project originates from previous works related to mountains, stones and their colonial ground. The artist comes from the capital of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where the disappearance of mountains due to mining is a historical constant. The works explore a new possibility of symbology of these contrasts between dimensions and erasure. Time of construction and disposal. It is important here to oppose magnitudes. Human time is added to cosmic time by the extent of its narratives, its tales and wondering. In several of her works, this perspective sets itself as the center of analysis for the understanding of historical relations and the constitution of collective memories and fictions. For the residency, Vertigo is set to contrast symbolic and non allegorical heights of geological landscapes to inner depths of fears and affections, considering the melting down of peaks as figurative social collapse. Vertigo of time, or our times, translated in a composition of aquatint photogravures and a sound installation.