Hangar Gallery X Maison Poesy

About the series 

Celebrating and defending Brazil's rich flora is one of the main themes of Claudia Jaguaribe's work, particularly the study of ferns, some of whose many species are millions of years old.

In her Viveiros series, Claudia Jaguaribe imagines a new kind of fern, the result of increasing hybridization between the plant kingdom and human activities. This 'herbarium of the future' presents composite specimens, an assemblage of photographs and AI-generated images, which Claudia Jaguaribe guides to imagine the evolution of these plants in the face of increasing pressure from anthropogenic actions.
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About the artist

Claudia Jaguaribe holds degrees in art history from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in photography from Boston University (USA). She has been working internationally since 2002, with numerous exhibitions around the world. Her most recent exhibition, Naturas, was held at the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro in 2023. Her works and books can be found in several museums and collections in Brazil and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Brumadinho; the Moreira Salles Institute in Rio de Janeiro; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Maison Européenne de la Photographie; the Instituto Italo-Latino Americano in Rome; the Pinacoteca de São Paulo; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; and MOMA. Claudia Jaguaribe co-founded the Madalena publishing house, which specialises in photography, and has published some twenty monographs, including Cidades, Entrevistas and Beijing Overshoot. Her book Aeroporto, published by Aperture, was included in the Latin American Photobook (2011). She has also received numerous awards, including: Marc Ferrez photography (2010), The SyngentaPhotography (2017), Kassel Photobook Award (2015). Claudia Jaguaribe was selected for the book Collage - Women of the Prix Pictet since 2008, published in 2022.