artist/ Giandra De Castro

France

Franco-Brazilian photographic artist Giandra de Castro has been exploring water at every scale – regional, national, international- since 2019. Her work, exhibited in over 10 countries, moves fluidly between naturalist festivals and contemporary art venues. At first glance, it looks like painting – impressionist, expressionist, surrealist, abstract… And yet, it is raw photography, unedited: a direct encounter with the optical, pictorial, poetic, and philosophical properties of water. “Water is my Muse, but also my artist: I collect its most beautiful creations along the shores of lakes, seas, and rivers.” This ode to the ephemeral and the unnoticed unfolds in long timeframes, site fidelity, sensory slowness. More than 650,000 visitors have lived the experience: spatial disorientation, contemplative trance, and the urge to return to the water “to see it with their own eyes.” To better observe water is already to better recognize its prodigious nature — and to repair our bond with it.