Untitled

Carla Vendrami's untitled work represents a set of geographical or social barriers and offers a reflection on otherness. This limit or boundary between the “I” and the other is part of a production that refers to the search for identity through difference and individuality through the collective. The artist accepts the definition of frontier made by the sociologist Stuart Hall (1932-2014), for whom the frontier is not a mark of exclusion, but a place of passage. In the process of searching for identity and individuality, it is necessary to overcome this boundary that exists between the self and the other, understanding and accepting the difference and understanding the interdependent relationship that exists. The approach and crossing of the barrier happens when seeking points in common with each other or through the liberation of the “illusion of neutrality”. A person may think that is neutral in society, but he is inserted in a system of relationships on which his survival depends, being himself part of that network as an influencer of other lives. Carla Vendrami was born in Ponta Grossa (PR), in 1962. Her first studies of the arts were with artists Luiz Carlos de Andrade Lima (1933-1998) and Alberto Massuda (1925-2000), later, she studied Painting at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná - EMBAP and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, in Milan. She was a master in Communication and Languages at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, where she was also a professor, as well as at EMBAP. She died in Curitiba (PR), in 2009.