Descartes: Performative Thriller

Louise graduated in Cinema at Armando Alvares Penteado Institute, São Paulo, Brazil. Since then, she has worked with literature, theatre and cinema. She directed and wrote the script for the short film “La Mer”, which was displayed at Ouro Preto Film Festival, in 2018, one of the most important film festivals in Brazil. Along with Rodrigo Pocidônio she is one of the founders of the contemporary art coletive “Máquinas Desejantes (Desiring Machines)”. In 2020, Louise started working as a producer, coordinator and educator at “Projeto Frestas” (Gaps Project), a project that intends to spread knowledge trough art and culture in a variety of brazilian cities (nowadays, the project already reached more then 500 students, in almost all the 26 states of Brazil). In 2021 she wrote and co-directed the play “Antimadox”, which premiered in São Paulo. In 2022, she has released her first book, intitled “Primeira Pele” (Primary Skin). Also in 2022, Louise was accepted, and also granted a partial scholarship, to be a part of the Master Program “Creative Writing in Spanish”, at New York University. Currently, Louise lives in New York and spends her time writing her second novel.

Claus Lehmann graduated in Social Communication at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), São Paulo, Brazil, in 2000.The photographer lived in Munich, Germany, between 2002 and 2003 where he worked with photographer Enno Kapitza. There he got in touch with his portraits universe and with his analog color photo lab and was able to join his technique with experimentation.
From 2004 to 2008 Claus lived in Milano, Italy, and worked with different photographers such as Ruy Teixeira, with whom he developed his knowledge in “the new digital photography”, and began his career as a portrait photographer. During this period in Europe, he photographed for Eindhoven Design Academy of Netherlands, among other clients. In 2009 he turned back to São Paulo and began to shoot for magazines and advertising agencies.
His artistic projects are researches on photographic tecniches and artistic language. Experimenting and mixing analog and digital technologies.