Carina Chagas Paoletti
Fine Arts
Biography
Carina Chagas Paoletti is a visual artist working with sculpture, installation, collage, and objects. Inspired by nature, politics, and craft, she explores materiality and the body's relation to art. Her work blends social critique and emotional memory, investigating the tension between function and expression, fragility and structure.

Coral Stalactites
The project revolves around the idea of printing everyday texts, gestures that leave marks, textures, and fragments of newspaper clippings onto ceramic tiles. It explores themes of filling empty spaces—both within our bodies and experiences, and in the public environments we inhabit. The work reflects on the natural flows of water, the transformation of elements in nature, and the shaping of landscapes, drawing parallels between these external processes and the internal, emotional, and experiential landscapes we carry. The project will involve the activation of a deactivated fountain located outside the gallery. This empty fountain, devoid of water and flow, will serve as a space where the work can interact with the environment, reactivating its presence through word, form, and movement. The installation will bring attention to this abandoned structure, transforming it into a place of encounter, a space of realistic fiction, a space to dream, to drink, and reflect on the natural internal and external flows of things. The work is an invitation to celebrate life and the present moment.