Daisy Xavier

Daisy Xavier was born in 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives and works. She holds degrees in psychology and psychoanalysis, and her work addresses the concerns with the limits, identities, and otherness of the human body, whether through deconstruction or the recreation of forms and concepts. The artist creates images with a strong poetic charge, where the body ceases to be merely physical and begins to represent personal, social, and political concerns, either by deconstructing or recreating established forms and concepts.

Elements such as the net and water are recurring in her works—whether videos, photos, installations, paintings, or drawings. These elements do not define what is inside or outside, creating interchangeable fields of constant mutation. In 2010, she was nominated for the Pipa Prize, and since the 1980s, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions both in Brazil and abroad.