Marcela Neves

Work

One sentence by the artist organises everything seen here: “I see art in nature, in the angles caught of elements in transformation: transformed, or transforming.”

The series gathered on this site are states of a single investigation. Sand that changes shape with each wind, stone that splits open, water that returns the image inverted, a body stepping out of itself. In none of them does the photograph record a still object: it records something halfway between two states.

Photography is the starting point, not the limit. From the image the artist moves to stitching thread, cut paper, clay and her own body — and the most recent series, from Petricor to Water, show the same attention to matter forming and coming undone.

Marajó Studies

Marajó Studies

Marajó, 2025: the body in mud, mangrove and dark water — and thread stretched between the trees.

2025 · Project in progress
EX-SISTERE

EX-SISTERE

The camera turns inward: long exposure, dissolved outline, the figure multiplied.

2026 · Ongoing series
Petricor

Petricor

The smell of earth after rain: roots, stone, lichen and fungi seen up close, 2024.

2024 · 7 works
Water

Water

Nothing photographed directly: the whole world returned by the surface of water.

2024—2025 · 27 works
Fluidity

Fluidity

The drop before it falls, and everything still in passage.

2024 · 5 works
Nature

Nature

Flooded forest, root and broken egg — and the artist's body entering the landscape.

2024—2025 · 6 works
Black and White

Black and White

Socotra, salt pans and the Lençóis from above: without colour, place becomes drawing.

2024—2025 · 20 works
Diante do Sutil

Diante do Sutil

Socotra, 2023: dragon's blood trees, desert, salt mounds and the island's children, between colour and black and white.

2023 · 40 works
Des Cobertas

Des Cobertas

The Lençóis Maranhenses framed against the postcard — sand and water divided by a line that shifts every day.

2015—2019 · 13 works
Textures

Textures

The frame closes until scale disappears. It could be satellite or microscope.

2019—2025 · 28 works
Shadow and Light

Shadow and Light

Forest, igarapé, market and city wall. What binds them is not place, but light.

2015—2022 · 16 works
Humans

Humans

Three images, and the only series where transformation has a face.

2019 · 3 works
Sky and Water

Sky and Water

Photography's most worn-out motif, rescued by insistence on the line where sky and water blur.

2019—2022 · 8 works
Installation

Installation

Photography leaves the plane: crochet that covers without hiding, thread that sews the images.

2022—2024 · 2 works