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Rosto de Sal proposes a reflection on the image as a means of alchemy, elaboration and healing. It explores the metamorphosis of life, where energy transforms into matter and matter transforms into energy. In 2021, when her mother's physical body was ripped away by the Inconceivable, Krieger began a journey that would give rise to this series. She links textual gestures, portraits and childhood photographs to her photographs, weaving the cord that would lead to her mother’s energetic body. Through the photographic-body, this essay evokes an absent body. Through artistic gestures it rescues the traces of what remains of the natal-body – the mother-body – ritualising the creation process and establishing a space where bodies that inhabit different dimensions can meet. The meeting takes place in the folds of a time before the chronological one, in the gap that opens in the process of making an image. Focused on the circular perception of existence, Krieger traces a place where she calls her mother to dance.

Carolina Krieger lives and works in Camboriú, SC. ​​She is a self-taught photographer. She works with photography, appropriated images and manual collage. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the XVII Funarte Marc Ferrez Photography Award, the Diário Contemporâneo Photography Award and the Pierre Verger National Photography Award. She has held solo exhibitions in Brazil and China. In addition, she has participated in group exhibitions in Brazil, France, Italy and Spain.