Camada Um [ Layer One ]​​​​​​​

2025 · Sala de Arte do Canto
São Paulo, Brazil

Curated by David Galasse
Developed as a continuation of the research initiated in Plano de Fundo (Background Layer), Camada Um (Layer One) expands my investigation into the structures that underlie digital images and their translation into painting. Centered on the transparency grid commonly found in image-editing software, the works explore layering as both a visual process and a conceptual framework. Through painting, relief, and shaped supports, the series examines the relationship between construction and transformation, materiality and virtuality. Each work emerges through successive layers that overlap, distort, conceal, and reveal one another, creating a dialogue between abstraction, color, texture, and the logic of digital image-making.
Exhibition view . Camada Um . Sala de Arte do CANTO, São Paulo, Brazil, 2025
Minerals I, 2025. Acrylic and oil on canvas . 52 × 52 cm
Minerals I, 2025. Acrylic and oil on canvas . 52 × 52 cm
Camadas (Layers), 2025. Acrylic on MDF . 47 × 36 cm
Exhibition view . Camada Um . Sala de Arte do CANTO, São Paulo, Brazil, 2025
Portal III, 2024. Acrylic and modeling paste on canvas . 25 × 25 cm
Portal II, 2024. Acrylic and modeling paste on canvas . 25 × 25 cm
Liquify, 2024. Acrylic on canvas . 28 × 28 cm
Progressive Dissolve, 2024 . Diptych . Acrylic on canvas MDF. 123 × 82 cm
Curatorial Essay — David Galasse, 2025
CAMADA UM (LAYER ONE)
Luciana Gnoatto at Sala de Arte do CANTO
Camada Um (Layer One) is the symbolic and visual point of departure in Luciana Gnoatto’s research—an excavation of the figurative surface in search of its abstract potential. It embodies the dilemma of the blank page, transformed through the passage between the materiality of pigment and the virtuality of transparency.
This inaugural layer takes the form of a checkered grid composed of white and gray squares repeated ad infinitum. Its nature is flexible and editable, adapting itself to the demands of the creative process. It reveals itself not only as a point of origin, but as a foundational structure and creative principle. Within the artist’s worldview, it is the matrix from which each work comes into being—through a process of accumulation, layer upon layer.
The three-dimensionality of the works can be understood through their constructive process, where organic, gestural forms without defined contours coexist with the traces they leave behind: distortions within the grid itself, visible overlaps, and the tactile relationship between texture and color.
Upon this foundation, the artist applies vibrant fields of color that evoke spontaneity, lightness, and movement. Each layer interferes with and transforms the others, creating a dynamic balance between control and chance, order and free expression.
Camada Um is fertile ground, a sensitive body, memory in expansion. It is where the story of each work begins—and continues.
— David Galasse
Curator
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