Selva de Carvalho

Selva de Carvalho is the name/duo/body created by Stephanie de Carvalho Klabin (1986, São Paulo, SP). She graduated in Visual Arts (Licentiate, 2009) from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP. After graduation, she coordinated education and sustainability projects with schools, NGOs, and companies. From 2011 to 2014, she worked at Natura, developing programs focused on education and socio-environmental conservation in areas and communities located in the Amazon region.

From 2014 to 2017, she dedicated herself exclusively to motherhood, raising her two children. She started her work as a visual artist in 2019, with embroidery and drawing as her base. She also moves through body arts/performance. In her research, she explores the materiality, expressiveness, and becoming of fabrics, threads, papers, words, and bodies—visible and invisible, human and non-human—and the organic, symbolic, and fantastic relationships between them. She is currently part of the artistic orientation group, GOA, under the guidance of Ana Paula Cohen and Thiago Honório.

She has participated in the following group exhibitions: 2021, “Do sagrado e do profano” at Galeria Karla Osorio, Brasília, Brazil. Curated by Fernando Mota; 2019, Projeto Edícula, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Fernando Mota; 2019, “Anatomia de uma convivência” at Galeria Rabieh, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Carla Chaim, Nino Cais, and Marcelo Amorim; 2019, “Futuros Imaginados, Passados Reconstruídos” at Galeria Lamb Art, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Carollina Laureano; 2019 “Baralho” at Casa Parte / Hermes Artes Visuais, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Carla Chaim, Nino Cais, and Marcelo Amorim; 2019 “No dia primeiro no nono andar” at Galeria Lamb Art, São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Carla Chaim, Nino Cais, and Marcelo Amorim. She was an artist-in-residence at Kaaysá Art Residency, São Sebastião, São Paulo, in 2019. She participated in the following fairs: 2021, Art Rio with Galeria Karla Osorio and 2021, SP Arte with Galeria Karla Osorio. Her work was acquired for the public collection of the Museum of Art of Rio, MAR, Rio de Janeiro, BR.