Camila Sposati
From Within, Beneath, and Beyond: Through Matter
This solo exhibition gathers works created over the past fifteen years of artistic and research exploration. Revisited and reconfigured for this occasion, the works function as co-agents in a rich, layered dialogue about how we interact and resonate with the essential elements of our existence.
I ask: Could my work originate from within?
The works emerge as a map of journeys—crossing and dissecting body and earth—serving as witnesses to encounters across future, past, and present. Grounded in the belief that the planet’s core holds the ultimate expression of its radical and energetic essence, I investigate processes where materializations occur, capturing these fragile, emergent moments. The resulting works aim to convey energies rather than forms.
I wonder: Can an object shed its form conceptually while continuing to exist in a transformed state, imbued with a different kind of energy?
These explorations challenge conventional perspectives on landscapes. They ask: What if we could see from inside a mountain outward, from the planet’s core to its crust? If we abandon the normative, horizontal gaze and attempt to perceive the landscape from alternative viewpoints, might we uncover its essence—not as defined forms, but as their boundaries and connections?
The works also invite reflections on the unknown: Is it the future or the past? As tactile aesthetic instances, they embody realities once confined to paper or records. They reveal an unseen world—both factual and imagined—a world beneath our view, contested and endangered by activities like deep-sea and underground mining. This world calls for urgent attention and demands that we activate our senses to connect with its vast formlessness. By engaging with it, we might form empathetic links and recognize its value as a collective good, vital to remain in its state of unbelonging.
As an artist captivated by the questions of what lies deep below, I found it necessary to embrace archaeology, with its focus on excavation and the layering of time, as well as disciplines such as social anthropology, crystallography, geology, philosophy, and the arts.
These intersecting fields provided the tools to engage with the physical and metaphysical acts of “unearthing.” These disciplines, intricately woven into my process, leave visible traces within my works. They serve as conceptual and metaphysical connectors, linking pieces of vastly different scales.
For instance, the micro-view of a crystal I grew at University College London’s Chemistry Department in 2006 connects to the macro dimension of the Cross-Section Map I developed with Clive Cartwright of the British Geological Survey in 2009. These works invite the viewer to bridge these dimensions and ponder their interconnectedness.
I doubt: Are circular or geometric forms truly innovative? How can they move the spectator without literal movement? How can the spectator and the work form a relationship that is both precise and open?
Through these inquiries, my works strive to engage the spectator in a dialogue—a shared vibration between object and viewer that transcends form and invites collective engagement.
Text in conversation with Georges Pfründer
Biography
born in 1972 in São Paulo, lives and works in Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
From Within, Beneath and Beyond: Through Matter, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
2024
Coal, HOAST, Vienna
2023
Breath Pieces (Part II), ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Breath Pieces, ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart
2021
Corpos de Phonosophia, Residência Belojardim, Pernambuco
Phonosophia, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2018
Phonosophia, Goethe Institut - na Vila Itororó, São Paulo
2015
Glory Hole, São Paulo
2013
Earth’s Earth, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, USA
2012
When 2+2=0, Die Raum, Berlin
Green-Dyed Vulture, HICA-Highland Institute of Contemporary Art, Achnabat, Inverness
Darvaza, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
Charting Revolution, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
2011
Rescue Submarine Signal, Die Raum, Berlin
Gabion, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo
2009
Nucleation, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
2007
Rescue Smoke, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2001
The BBQ, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
CORPUS COSMOS, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala
2024
Nós - Arte e Ciência por Mulheres, SESC Interlagos, São Paulo
My memory isn´t mine, Krupa Art Foundation, Poland
Bringing Owls from Athens, Georg Kargl BOX x Callirrhoë, Athens, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2023
HARD/SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Arts, MAK, Vienna
Here and Now II - Vienna Sculpture 2023, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
37° Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Under the ashes, embers, Sesc, Sorocaba
We - Art and Science by women, Paco da Artes,São Paulo
Precious, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2022
trauma, dreams escape,13th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre
The devil to pay in the backlands, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
37° Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM, São Paulo
2021
Sorry It´s a Mess, We Just Moved In!, Lamb Gallery, London
Cybernetics of the Poor, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2019
Echos of South Atlantic, Pivô arte e pesquisa, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro
Belo Monte, Pernambuco, Brazil
2018
#elenão, LAMB Arts, London
Museu dos Futuros Possíveis, Centro Internacional de Convenções do Brasil/ SESI-Vitoria do Espírito Santo
Echos of South Atlantic, Goethe Institut, Salvador
Museu José Bonifácio, Rio de Janeiro
2017
The sky is still blue, you know…, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
To Seminar, BAK. basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht
2016
The Earth Anatomical Theatre, Teatro Vila Velha, Salvador
2015
10th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Perception of art and Science, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
The garden of forking paths, Sobering Galerie, Paris
2014
3th Bienal da Bahia, MAM-Bahia e Museu de Arte Sacra, Salvador
Manifesto: poder, desejo, intervençã, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli–MARGS, Porto Alegre
Geografias da Criação, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli– MARGS, Porto Alegre
Arte e Patrimônio 2014, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Neblina, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul – MACRS, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre
Janeiro, Bendana-Pinel art contemporain, Paris
2013
Arte e Design, Torre Santander, São Paulo
Reforma e reivenção, Museu de Arte da Bahia-MAMBA, Salvador
Video Selection, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris
Correspondências, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
2012
Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
Outra generacion, Blanca Soto, Madrid
Cromomuseu. Pós-Pictorialismo no Contexto Museológico, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli– MARGS, Porto Alegre
2011
Album, Galeria Baró, São Paulo
RAW - Lustwarande’11 - 4th Edition International Sculpture Exhibition, Tilburg
2010
Multiplique Boutique, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo
Editions, Casa Triângulo. São Paulo
The Great Glen Artist Airshow, Highland Institute of Contemporary Art – H I. C A, Inverness-Hire
2009
Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA of Platform 2009, Seoul
Scream and Listen, 7th Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre
2008
Open studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Active Forms, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Form Instability, Institute of Brazilian Architects, São Paulo
Artist links, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, São Paulo
2007
Crystal Growth /Opening Studio, Gasworks, London
Comunismo da Forma: Som + Imagem + Tempo - Estratégia do Vídeo Musica, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Video Links Brazil: na antohology of Brazilian Video Art. 1981-2005, Tate Modern, London
Living Level, Absolute Vodka-Sparte, São Paulo
2006
Convergência, Galeria Del Infinito Arte, Buenos Aires
Certamen Internacios de Artes Plasticas de Pollença, Museu de Pollença, Mallorca
Neobarroco, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Videometry, Galeria dels Angèls, Barcelona
Vizinhos /networked art in Brazil, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
7º Salão do Mar, Casa Porto das Artes Plásticas, Vitória do Espírito Santo
Laisle entertainment – Video as Urban Condition, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Paris é aqui, São Paulo
LATAM, Fundación Telefónica, Lima
Aderências, SESC Paulista, São Paulo
Paralela 2006, Pavilhão dos Estados, São Paulo
2005
Além da imagem, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
Prog: ME, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
El sutil Vertigo de la Imagen, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosário
Aderências- Mediterrâneo, SESC Paulista, São Paulo
Sex frjó egg, Woollenmaiden ProjectSpace, Reykjavik
Brief Encounter, 12 de maio de 2005, ReykjavikurAkademian, Reykavik
Portrait, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Ocupação, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2004
Exposição n.1, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Fluxo de Arte Belém Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte de Belém (MABE) e Memorial dos Povos, Belém do Pará
Mostra de Video Paulista, Espaço Bananeiras, Rio de Janeiro
Cine Quintal n.1, Exo experimental, São Paulo
Framing Devices, The Agency gallery, London
Goldsmiths College Graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne
2003
Insert, Cuchifritos Essex Street Market, New York
Take me seriously, Apriori Gallery, London
Made in UK, Arch Gallery, London
Dörgicsewineart, Pántlika Borház, Budapest
2002
The island and the aeroplane, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
X Salão de Arte de Goiá, Shopping Flamboyant, Goiania
April’s Fool, São Paulo
E(x)tra Bienal, São Paulo
2001
Chuckoo chuckoo chukoo, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Lovesick, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen
Future Perfect, Adam Street Gallery, London
Landscape Trauma in the age of scopophilia, The Gallery-Southward Park, London
Unchaperoned, Aroma Project Space, Berlin
Pandemonium Festival, Lux Cinema, London
EV+A - 25th Annual Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Glamourhammer, Boxing Ring Samuel Becket, London
2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London
Pourquoi, Moulin de Heutrégiville, Reims
Living with a Dutch, House Project, Enlarger Road, London
Chroma, Mercado de Fuencarral, Madrid
Shotgun, Udstillingsstedet Peblinc, Copenhagen
Cool, Elephant and Castle House project, London
Rooftopp, 17th Star & Garter mansions -Putney, London
Degree Show, Goldsmiths College of London, London
Landscape, Institut of Contemporary Art- ICA - video projection: Leicester Sq., Convent Garden e Festival Edinburgh
non stop opening, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon
1999
non stop opening, Central Point Gallery, London
1996
Novíssimos, Galeria Fotótica, São Paulo
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