At the age of 22, Goulart immigrated to Amsterdam, where he developed most of his work, navigating across media such as photography, video, performance, urban intervention, and artist books. Among the themes that shaped his work—closely tied to reflections on authorship, image appropriation, and distribution across different media—are identity, gender, memory, politics, history, and the power of images, particularly their manipulation and the mythical constructs of cinema.
An immersive poetics envelops the viewer in Night and Day (I Think of You), a video installation materialized through the combination of different media. In this work, the artist evokes the vastness of outer space, made tangible through the shimmering of stars. Contained within a compact exhibition space, the piece seems to stretch toward the infinity of the galaxy. Silence and sound, intimacy and immensity, subtlety and forcefulness intertwine in a sensorial lyricism that unfolds in multiple rhythms and countless reverberations.
Diego Groisman
Claudio Goulart (Brazil, 1954-2005) was an artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses installations, performances, photography, photocopying, and videos, among other media. Identity and memory are recurring themes in his work, especially identity, understood through a combination of history and contemporary images. He had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows in Brazil at institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Havana Biennial, and Gallery Spoon in Tokyo. He lived mainly between Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
