In my everyday life I find the images in ElephantCitySerpent. I look for traces of a urban man and I take his objects and spaces to myself. Situations present themselves in obvious casual actions. Exploring human tracks, I see just how particular anonymity in large cities is, and just how my subconscious disrupts everything. Everything that is interior becomes exterior, suppressing the boundaries between reality and imagination. In this environment, my spectator is invited to decipher them. Occult, paradoxical, and subversive photography. The real world becomes a virtual world. F. CHEMALE

The images comprised in ElefanteCidadeSerpente are written in a secret code, occupying a space between fantasy and experiment. Abstract scenes juxtapose figurative images in a saturated context. The real world becomes a virtual world. Particular realities present multiple meanings that attain their fullness when they meet the viewer. The photos ELEPHANTCITYSERPENT it will be in exhibition, June 17 to the July 17, 2009 in the IBEU Art Gallery in Rio de Janeiro. Av. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, 690 / 2º andar, www.ibeu.org.br.

Cities and Their Expressive Cracks

"To see the city, to record its daily life, to feel its irritating pulse, to sense its unrelenting movement. When you see a city, you do not necessarily see truth. This is precisely the main idea that passes by Fernanda Chemale’s ElefanteCidadeSerpente [ElephantCitySerpent], where she took up the challenge of creating a photographic collection of cities today without committing to photographing buildings, avenues, people; in short, the socio-cultural history of urban spaces. "

Rubens Fernandes Junior