| FABIOLA CHIMINAZZO | (b.1971, Brazil)

Graduated in 1994 in visual arts at FAAP in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds an MFA in visual arts from New York University Abu Dhabi. Her artistic research includes photography, drawing, painting, objects, and installations. Her work was awarded and shown in exhibitions throughout Brazil, including at the University of Campinas, Paço das Artes (USP-SP), and Centre Adamastor (Guarulhos-SP). Chiminazzo's work is in the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Sorocaba's collection. In 2022, she exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sorocaba, Brazil, at 421 Arts Campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and won the Art Circle Award 2022, UAE. In 2023, she exhibited at 421, Abu Dhabi, and was granted a Post-Graduate Research Fellowship at NYUAD, UAE. Since 2017, she has been living between Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.

| ABOUT MY WORK |

My work investigates traces from the past and the excess imagery of our society. Archival images and objects, like family photos, books, machines and prints, museum catalogs, or old master paintings, are the source material to manipulate and reconstruct incomplete contents and hidden traces into a new visual archive. Primarily using painting, photography, and collage, these mediums help frame collected data while investigating stories and fragments from art history, psychology, neuroscience, and mysticism. Nevertheless, the sources gathered and the artwork sits in the middle of things; there is no beginning or end. The idea is to piece together, link, and re-edit information to reread the world and re-signify the past. However, is that possible? The artworks then become mementos, objectifying memories and revealing impermanence and loss. In that sense, they are recollection images, jumping from our past, igniting real and imaginary emotions that inform and affect our present life.