Gabriella Arantes
Bio
Gabriella Arantes (1974, São Paulo, Brazil)
Graduated in Visual Arts from FAAP, São Paulo, Brazil with additional studies in Fashion at Accademia di Moda & Design, in Florence, Italy, and training in Desktop Publishing at the Cleveland Institute of Art, USA.
Gabi worked on fashion editorials in Brazil and the United States. After 2001, she shifted her career towards advertising, working in the creative departments of advertising agencies. She subsequently spent over 15 years as a Director of Marketing, Social Media and Public Relations (PR).
In 2026, she creates a site-specific work for the Projeto Ocupação, organized by Hermes Artes Visuais, while also participating in group exhibitions and art fairs in Brazil and abroad.
Statement
Gabriella’s artistic research is attentive to what emerges between matter, memory, dreams, and intuition. Centered on the practice of drawing, she also develops works in painting, sculpture, ceramics, embroidery, and installation, mobilizing different languages and scales to construct narratives populated by fluid creatures and cosmic landscapes. Bodies, monsters, marine and winged beings, trees, volcanoes, rocks, seeds, and spacecraft are characteristic elements of her visual production, composing a kind of personal cosmology inhabited by images that seem to emerge from a memory preceding narrative itself. Starry, golden skies, hybrid figures, and organic forms coexist with elements associated with the sacred, the fantastic, and the world of childhood.
Rather than representing fantastic worlds, Gabriella projects situations in which reality dissolves: suspensions of the familiar and the everyday that acquire cosmic dimensions, where imagination functions as a form of unknowing.
Additional information
La obra reúne elementos simbólicos del universo celestial, la naturaleza y el cuerpo, creando una figura híbrida entre lo humano, lo animal y lo sagrado.
A través de la costura, el bordado, la pintura y el collage, Gabriella Arantes transforma el tejido en una presencia escultórica que se expande por el espacio. La riqueza de las texturas, los colores y los símbolos construye un universo propio, donde conviven lo espiritual, lo fantástico y lo cotidiano.
