In the beginning, the intimate sphere. And then a community of circles before the eyes. So much roundness formed a thread of beads, and the essay proceeded in lines where each photograph called upon met the choice of meaning to make meaning exist. By displacing the individuality of the photographs, giving them to the opening, a story of reciprocal animation occurred, where the breath of one extends into another. The things are alive and dreaming us. This essay seeks to imagine its dreams, to venture an invention.
Visual artist and photographer, in her work Daniela Balestrin [1984; São Paulo/Brazil] creates intimacy with events, approaching the mesh of movements that weave through her daily life. She sees in the immanence of the imaginary in the real the very experience of the mystery of existing. Her academic background is in Law [2007], having worked for almost fifteen years as a public servant. During this period, she gradually approached photography in a self-taught manner. Since 2020, she has transformed photography into her profession, also creating collages from her own materials.
