This exhibition takes memory and disappearance as its starting points. Gathering works created between 2020 and 2025, it unfolds around the memory of the artist’s father and explores themes such as absence, continuity, and reinvention. That memory — rewritten, reinvented, borrowed — becomes material and setting for the creation of drawings, videos, paintings, prints, and photographs. The waters of the river, along with other nautical elements present in the exhibition, recall memories from Clara’s childhood in Mato Grosso do Sul, in the interior of Brazil. Among the works on view, the painting series Nós (Knots/Us) visually explores both physical and symbolic knots — those that tangle in objects, but also in emotional bonds. Beyond the evocation of memory, the rivers that run through the title of the exhibition also allude to the passage of time.
Clara de Cápua er brasilísk listakona sem vinnur á mörkum sviðslista og myndlistar. Hún býr nú í Portúgal þar sem hún stundar doktorsrannsókn við Háskólann í Porto með styrk frá FCT, portúgölsku rannsóknarstofnuninni. Hún er með meistaragráðu í listum(2010) og BA-próf í leiklist (2005). Listsköpun hennar snýst um ferla hvarfs og spennuna á milli nærveru og fjarveru í myndum.
Clara de Cápua (Jaú, 1984) is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist whose practice moves between the performing and visual arts. She currently lives in Portugal, where she is pursuing a PhD at FBAUP with the support of FCT. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts (2010) and a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (2005), both from UNICAMP, Brazil. Her research interests revolve around processes of disappearance and the tension between presence and absence in the image
