Curitiba Central

         1979-2013

      From the late 70s until 2013, Vilma Slomp registered shots of Curitiba downtown, highlighting the profound changes that have occurred at urban space over this period.

The photographs provoke different feelings to the reader, as if there wereseveral cities in the same city. The work has as reference the downtown area according to the Research and Planning of Urban Curitiba Institute, including Sete de Setembro Avenue to Alameda Augusto Stellfeld and Judge Motta Street to Ubaldino do Amaral Street.

        The work allows a journey through time and memory: the wooden architecture of the last century which refers to the colonization to the modern buildings, portrayed in detail. "Curitiba and I grow and change together. The observer rescues in the photographs the urban heritage that goes back to different times of our culture and helps to understand the current downtown of Curitiba" says Vilma.

    The researcher and photographs curator Rubens Fernandes Junior highlights the appreciation of details in the artist's records. "She treated the city as a logical design valuing the fragment, the detail, the marks of their managers, the sources and fountains, representative buildings of cultural identity. Finally, your picture is this kind of logical design created in the vagueness of the chance of her travels through the region. Her photographs helps us to understand the city as a palimpsest, that is, memory layers and times that cause distinct sensations. It is as if we could see several cities in the same city" said the critic.

Vicera in Vice versa

     In the beginning of her work, during 2003, Vilma Slomp continued the series illusion of poetic images reflecting issues of power and art history using photography. Time through man's decay and its rites, the destruction of nature to conquer  power in politics and war.

In 2004, the artist was a victim ofmedical malpractice: drug peritonitis. This personal experience changed her work into deteriorated images.

      The concrect poetry Decio Pignatari described this work as: "Exquisite naive, widen the objective eyelids suffering diaphragms of its peculiar wombs as an antagonistic body hidden photography" still "Negro melancholy-Oswaldian solar cannon pointed at looks friends and enemies in order to show up and show under a light or no light - that is the slompiana camera".

       In 2006, she released this book at the Pinacoteca of São Paulo with a photo exhibition. Also there was a monologue play performed by the actor Rodrigo Spina at the Museum of Photography in Curitiba 2007.

Illusion

Photographs taken from 1993 through 2001 express the visual plurality in the search for self knowledge. The history of painting and nature are used as a guide and reference to compose all of the black and white images in this book. Reflecting the existence and the illusion - the lie or deception which ironically we need in life not to be let-down. The representation of the photographs "deluding illusion" is the main theme of the book cover, questioning life through the use of arts.

       Through the rupture of her work composition, Vilma Slomp shot a series of photographs creating three-dimensional objects that revealed the poetic criticism about politics and power.

      Photography as a concept of representation using flowers, the unreal body, papers, drawings, lead, nature, skin and landscapes are inspirations when creating a tribute to Man Ray, Debret, Fontana, Dali, Christo and Richter.

Pain

Pain .  The pain of love

          In tough times Vilma Slomp sought through the creation, exorcised the physical pain, endless source of feelings. The images are a metaphor for this emotions, which were composed using different elements such as lights outlining shadows, and shapes.

          This series of fifteen photographs shot in 4x5 chrome during September through November of 1989 demonstrate the bitter core built with flowers, seaweed, pigments, insects, papers and other objects.

          The passage of time, in a poetic way, reveals through colors her pain, comparing illusions and nature to death.

Pain . Adversus Aestus

          This eighteen photographs series, black and white, shot during the period of 1993 through 1997 Vilma Slomp created images using papers, flowers, bodies, insects, graphics and drawings, as a tribute to artists Frank Stella and Marcel Duchamp, and a self portrait celebrating Kiefer stars using datura flowers.

          Reminding youthat pain is the opposite to your inner universe. The period of loss and disillusionment of living brings out the beauty through lights built in different ranges from black to white, also expressing the return of its existence with gentle feelings for his existence.

         Love and delirium of art are exposed in the pace of their delicacies.

Merry Christmas

The city of Curitiba received the cultural influence of Italians, Germans, Ukrainians and Polish immigrants settling at Paraná state at the end of the nineteenth century.

         The photographs taken during the period of ten Christmas, 1986 until 1995, portray these crafts arrangements that residents placed on balconies, doors, and windows of their wooden houses. With saturated colors, unique characteristics and details of architecture, reminding the influence of European colonization.

The photographs also show a poetic intimate view of this handmade craft in melancholic way, renewing feelings from the soul and the desire of a better next year.