Lower yourself. Lower yourself deeply. Bring your eye close to the point of losing definitions. Create an emptiness to make room for the rest: for the whole world. In this blindness, await the apparitions, the new creatures erecting their bodies from the Earth, from any and all available matter. The identity of each is merely relative. Each species carries within it the gift of making the life that inhabits it exist differently - a life that likes to circulate from one form to another. From photograph to photograph, traverse not forms of life, but life in forms.
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.
