Fernanda Chemale is a photographer and visual artist. She works on matters related to photography and memory by developing authorial and documental projects. She finds vestiges of the urban man in daily life, retaining their objects, spaces and casual actions. In the construction of her images, the frontier between reality and fiction is suppressed, suggesting narrative possibilities. In this environment, the viewer is challenged to decipher images. She proposes occult, paradoxical and subversive photography. Amongst some of her series, the following are of note: Terráqueos, Rock Luz Velocidade, Mendigos, Abstracto, Face, Tempo de Rock e Luz, ElefanteCidadeSerpente, Espaço de Conflito, A Rua Suspensa, and Retratos Clássicos do Rock Gaúcho.
Her work can be found in the photography collections of Pirelli/MASP São Paulo Art Museum and Rio Grande do Sul Contemporary Art Museum. A FAMECOS PUC Social Communications major, Fernanda is the author of the photography books “Tempo de Rock e Luz”, “ElefanteCidadeSerpente” and “Desordem” [Disorder]. She is a photography teacher and teaches performing arts photography and portraiture. She coordinated photography workshops at the Projeto de Descentralização da Cultura, offered by Porto Alegre city hall. As a curator, she worked at the Olho Nu Photography Gallery projects and at IFCH-UFRGS; on the Lory F.Band CD, on Theatro São Pedro’s 150th anniversary commemorative book, on the book Silêncio em Siena, in homages at Porto Alegre Em Cena, and on the Sertões Nômades exhibit, for VI Theória at FUNDAJ. Her work is regularly showcased in exhibitions in the main Brazilian capitals and abroad. She has participated in Photography Festivals such as FotoRio, Rio de Janeiro; Fotoseptiembre USA-SAFOTO, United States; Fotograma in Uruguay, FestFotoPOA, Canela FotoWorkshops, Paraty em Foco Festival, and Transatlântica PhotoEspaña. Recently, her work was shown at Teatro Solís in Montevideo and at Fotogaleria Virgilio Calegari in Porto Alegre, for the 2nd IEAVi Visual Arts Awards. She also collaborated with Fundação Joaquim Nabuco in the Nordestes Emergentes project by photographing the Cariri, and she developed the Do Juazeiro ao Chuí series for VI Theória by photographing northeastern Brazil in transit in Rio de Janeiro.