Tubarões de seda

Tubarões de seda (2006) is an installation in which photographs were printed directly on a fabric, inviting the spectators to visit it not only with their eyes, but also with their bodies. The images’ threatening aspect (questionable, since the sharks were photographed in aquariums) is in strong contrast with the lightness of the material, counterposing an experience of pleasure with one of fear. The overlaying of the images on one other, to the point that they disappear, proposes a chromatic game of light and textures, creating ambivalence between figure and background.