It is a treatise on her personal journey thru the various representations of her artistic progressive construction and limited at the same time. A process rapped by time and the physical fragility of the artist. She has the eyes that swallow the world that is yet to be discovered and unravel. This is the vision of Carla Cabral, the artist.

How do you define this bio-grafiapresa, is a return to childhood?

Carla Cabral: It's a memoir, not a reference to childhood. It's my route until today. We can find in this work all the techniques I already used, since I started working. The drawing, the acrylic, the oil, the collage and video installation. It's a great mix of languages ​​and addressing mainly to me, my route.

One of the works is a diary of some sorts ...

CC: I cannot part away from my notebooks. They are always behind me. I carry them with me since 1993. They are present in this exhibition that I took a few pages from 1996 to 2011, addressing the construction of other exhibits that I had at other times of the techniques that were needed and the types of frames. Then there's personal notes too, has references to my friends. The most important people in my life are there, are all represented, have not forgotten anyone. Messages that I wrote and was written to me. Do not know if you noticed, there is a work with 39 bottles was made by people who know me, I asked them to write a word that defines me, with their help I build my self-portrait.

I noticed in the open and closed cages. What symbolize?

CC: That's why I call my biography prey. It has to do with my life path. Myself. I'm stuck because of a disease. It's my cage.

In this exhibition I see that you use several techniques. It is a constant in your work?

CC: This is the first time I use all in a single exposure. I have used them at other times. I proposed myself to remake all the techniques. It also facilities in order to show myself-biography, from a home video in which I had five years old until the age of 40. Has this entire route.