What dive, embroidery, veterinarian and fine arts have in common? For Susanne Schirato, the answer is: everything. She inaugurated last July 9, at the Correios Cultural Center, in Rio de Janeiro, the show “Expedition”, which presents, until August 30, 18 works chosen along with curator Felipe Barros de Brito, who seek to reflect their experiences with cave diving.
“I play that I’m a puzzle,” says Susanne. “I have a portion of little pieces that make up me.”
Training veterinarian, Susanne discovered the bottom of the sea in 1998, and in 2006 decided to leave work in a large pharmaceutical company to fully dedicate herself to her two passions: cave dive, which divides with husband and instructor Sérgio Schirato, and the arts. She participates in a Global Underwater Explorers NGO (GUE), which invests in the formation of technical divers capable of participating in research and exploration projects in flooded aquifers, springs and caves.
“We report everything that maps to the scientific community of USP (University of São Paulo) so that they can analyze water, rock formation, etc., so it is not about practicing the dive into the dive itself or the adventure, but of trying to use this ability to science,” she explains.
And where do the arts enter and, the different techniques adopted, all this?
“I have a textile tendency, I love to use embroidery or even the same crochet plot, which is a technique that I learned little from my family, which is from the northeast, and I like to apply on maps, using the embroidery delicacy, for example, to describe the technical equipment I use in water, such as a diving cable, in a counterpoint of brutality and rigidity of these equipment and the gentleness of the softness and the delicacy of the delicacy Embroidered, “he defines.
In addition to embroidery, crochet and ceramics, Susanne also has painting works, which in the show says reflect “the underground landscapes, such as the expedition that I was part of Antarctica, where I dived under the icebergs.” In this trip, she says she had a respectful perrengue when she has the glove pierced inside a literally freezing water. “As I could not leave the water at once, because of the pressure, I had to stay 21 minutes with the skin exposed to that temperature,” he explains (and you complaining about washing dishes with cold water from the tap …).
Low or no visibility in flooded caves, says Susanne, also make the heart beat faster. “Sometimes it’s hard to find the way out, and I think of my two daughters waiting out there, because it is a lot of responsibility to get into an environment in which you know that your body was not made for that.”
In any case, the researcher-researcher artist is already starting daughters in diving techniques. “The oldest, Sofia, 15, already dives in open waters, and Eduarda, who will do 11, is still only in snorkel,” says proud of the offspring.
After Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition should go to Brasilia, Recife and Salvador, but is not expected to reach São Paulo – and it is not for lack of sea, but rather of sponsorship. “We are looking for an institution that makes it possible to bring this format of show to São Paulo,” he provokes.
Expedition
- Where: Cultural Center Correios RJ – Galleries I and II, Visconde de Itaboraí Street, 20, Centro
- Visitation time: from Tuesday to Saturday until August 30, from 12h to 19h
- Free
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