About
Cláudia Rudge Ramos V was born in Brazil, to São Paulo. She spent much of her life in a rural area, in the state of, Mato Grosso do Sul, far from any urban environment, where she created a forest reserve and agricultural production.
She studied architecture in the state of Paraná and visual arts at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul before graduating in fine arts at the University of São Paulo – USP.
Having chosen to live in France, Cláudia obtained a master's degree in plastic arts, photography from the University of Paris VIII as well as a master’s degree in contemporary art from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
Cláudia lives between France and Brazil.
The artist creates life-size images combining drawing, paint, photography and video, exploring themes deeply rooted in the environment and its connection to it.
She depicts relationships to talk about otherness.
« I am a wolf,
I am tree,
I am water
I am you,
I am we
I am the air we breathe
I am the link that binds us,
I am the void that separates us
I am the thresholds that divide us.
This is my subject.”
2018 – 2020 – Master in visual arts – University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne – Paris – France
2017 – 2018 – Master’s degree in visual arts, photography and contemporary art – research theme: Ethics and documentary-style photography – University of Paris VIII – UFR arts, philosophy and aesthetics – Paris – France
2010 – 2015 – Diploma in Fine Arts – specialty: multimedia and intermedia – São Paulo USP / ECA University – São Paulo, SP – Brazil
2006 – 2009 – Fine Arts – Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
1984 – Architecture –
Catholic University of Paraná – Curitiba, PR – Brazil
distinction
2008 – Photography incentive prize from the State Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo
2003 – Honorable mention at the 12th Brazilian Fine Arts Fair – Ribeirão
For that, SP – Brazil
main personal exhibitions
2019 – Lérins and BCW – Paris – France
2002 – Art Gallery H. Espíndola – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
2000 – Galerie d’Art M. Dolzan – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
group exhibitions
2021 – Vivants at the Espace Frans Krajcberg – Paris – France
2019 – Working hands – Saint-Ouen – France
2014 – Museum Paço das Artes – São Paulo, SP – Brazil
2003 – 12th Brazilian Fine Arts Fair – Ribeirão Preto, SP – Brazil
1999 – Catholic University Dom Bosco. – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
1998 – Luis Otávio Guizzo Cultural Center – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
1997 – Guaicurus Palace – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
1996 – Morada dos Baís Cultural Center – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
1996 – MARCO Contemporary Art Museum – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
presence in public collections
Museum of Contemporary Art – Campo Grande, MS – Brazil
Hiroo Onoda Foundation – Tokyo – Japan
motivation
What forces drive us?
I am a painter, born in Brazil. America was exposed to a rich variety of indigenous influences, European, African and Asian. In the theory of anthropophagy, taken up by the Brazilian critic Oswald de Andrade in 1928 in the Anthropophagic manifesto , colonized nations should claim their independence by appropriating the ideas and knowledge of their colonizing cultures to reshape them in their own way. In Mato Grosso do Sul where I lived, the painting of the Kadiwéus people particularly touched me. They paint geometric shapes on their skin, composed symmetrically like our body.
My work is made up of this syncretic vertigo. According to Glissant, there is no learning of a language if the speaker is not situated in a culture, an imagination, a thought, themselves dependent on this place.
I exhibited for the first time in 1996, without having a higher diploma, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Mato Grosso do Sul (MARCO), created in 1991 et, the next year, I exhibited at Palace Guaicurus, two major institutions. State created by decree in 1977.
I kept asking myself what kind of art I wanted to make. Those dimension I wanted to give my work… I needed an intellectual approach. I decided to study. I attended the Higher School of Visual Arts of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, but I gave up after realizing it didn't give me what I was looking for. The most famous art school in Brazil was at the University of São Paulo (USP). Ensuite, I moved to São Paulo. Five years of full-time training, where we visit all the workshops of all artistic genres. I graduated in 2014.
The art that interests me most was made in the Western European tradition. So I came to France to learn a new culture. In 2018, I obtained the title of Master 2 in visual arts, photography course, from the University of Paris VIII. In 2020, the contemporary art prize awarded by the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
I am a painter who walks, placed on threshold from another land. The dimension I look for in my work is the dimension of my being in the world . To achieve this, I overcome challenges... Challenges that start with being accepted into a new culture without being softened ; prove what I am and what I do; take competitive exams; write countless letters and projects. I have to explain in words, in adopted language, a plastic artistic approach. I am a painter. My semantics are pictorial. How can we describe what is part of the “percept” without reducing it to a regime of concepts? How to reveal the upheavals that move me by being objective, precise and succinct? And, in these conditions, how not to lose passion? How can we be receptive to the meaning that emanates from a “little piece of yellow wall” without reducing it to the mode of expression of verbal language? The picture is eloquent, but he speaks without words.
