Beatriz Chachamovits
Meet me in the clearing between the waves
2024
Meet Me in the Clearing Between the Waves is the first comprehensive exhibition of Beatriz Chachamovits’s work, highlighting her unique explorations of the intersections of art, science, and environmental advocacy. Organized by the Miami Design District, this early-career survey dwells in the beauty and vulnerability of our marine ecosystems, prompting a sense of urgency and active involvement. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1986, and based in Miami since 2018, Beatriz Chachamovits is an artist and educator whose work captures the mesmerizing appeal, and profound fragility, of the oceanic universe. Anchored in the practice of drawing and ceramic, and through a sustained commitment to marine conservation, she works tirelessly to question the human tendency towards extractivism, accumulation, and irresponsible dumping. Through a rare combination of scientific precision and visual imagination, her production from the past decade - from the cabinets of curiosities made entirely out of ceramic, to her multidisciplinary immersive installations - represent an experience of the marine world and offer a sensorial exploration of its complexity.
Curandeiras (2024)
Colored pencil on velum and white stoneware
In this new body of work, Chachamovits combines drawings and ceramic objects to explore the mythological universe beneath the waves. These highly personalized and hybrid heroines, complete with their unique weapons, combine marine species from South Florida with female archetypes to reinsert a sense of spirituality in science and interconnectedness across ecosystems.
To have and to hold (2022 - 2024)
Colored pencil on paper and glazed white stoneware
This installation of ceramic wall sculptures and paper drawings presents various cabinets of curiosities on whimsical wall patterns. The multicolor objects serve as modern reliquaries, holding reproductions of creatures native to Miami’s marine ecologies. It offers a window into the complex interplay between human curiosity, knowledge acquisition, environmental exploitation, and scientific progress throughout history.
Marine Fishes (2012 - 2017)
Indian ink on velum
This series explores the relationship of interdependency that exists between the species and its ecosystem, an individual and its community. It talks about how everything is connected, has its place in the system and depends on the other to exist. Creating a harmonious and delicate balance that can very easily be destabilized. It is a graphic investigation that highlights the biological complexity in the patterns of marine ecologies.
Heliotropic Seekers (2024)
Plexiglass and steel wire
Commissioned by the City of Miami Beach for their temporary public art project “Elevate Española”, Heliotropic Seekers is a suspended installation of plexiglass coral silhouettes that invites viewers to experience the fragility and beauty of coral reefs from a new perspective.
Throat of the sea (2024)
White stoneware
A series of ceramic vessels that blend functionality with organic transformation. Inspired by ancient water-carrying traditions, each vessel features elongated necks, wide handles, and ceramic coral replicas encrusting their surfaces, as if nature has slowly reclaimed them. The corals, left unglazed in stark contrast to the vessels’ singular hues, evoke a sense of time, growth, and ecological entanglement. Through this series, the artist explores water as a sacred and life-giving element, while drawing attention to the delicate balance between human culture and marine ecosystems
Can you sea change? (2020 - 2024)
White stoneware
In this multidisciplinary installation, Chachamovits pairs her ceramic sculptures with video art by Natasha Tomchin and sound design by Charles Levine. Video mapping on the ceramic objects simulates the life cycles of corals and underscores the impact of human activity on these ecosystems.
