Carolina Tardin
Visual ArtistCarolina Tardin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) works with images and the possibilities of the media through photography. Her works emphasize diary writing, poetic writing and the manual processes of analogue photography.
The truth is something very subtle and I believe that only the most attentive and sensitive eyes are able to discern things.
— Carolina Tardin
3 questions for Carolina
Where in the world is the biggest systemic fault?
In the way we understand it. There is, in general, a cognitive error: we cannot see this world as it really is. The truth is something very subtle and I believe that only the most attentive and sensitive eyes are able to discern things. What I am - what is not a part of me. This leads to many other systemic failures - to mention a first example, the current climate crisis.
What would be the shape of an earthquake?
Fragmentation, which is also a form. Even when the shape breaks, the pieces are still there. And it's from these pieces that the new structures will be built.
What should we protect?
Culture, stories, everything that made us up until now. In other words, self-knowledge, the search for that truth that I mentioned. And the fractures will always be part of this process, which is natural, fluid. To me, it's critical that we can embrace these faults, so that we can move on.
How we met Carolina
We ran an open call from the 24th of May to the 18th of June 2021.
We selected eleven projects that explore contemporary discontinuities using the medium of text, photography, illustration or drawing.
Carolina Tardin submitted the project Regresso which was selected to be included and published in the first issue of chumbo — our printed magazine dedicated to creative research.