Caroline de Aquino was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1993

Caroline was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and went to the United States in October 2020, where she studies and develops her artistic practice. Immigration is the central theme of her research. Through visual work, Caroline elucidates variations within the human psyche under the condition of being an immigrant in modern society, moving from an individual originating from an emerging country to the First World. In a documentary manner, Caroline represents her personal experiences and those of her community.

Within this theme, her work unfolds along two central directions. On one hand, Caroline addresses elements such as faith and purpose, and their intangibility, which sustain us in persisting through situations that often involve excessive labor, the devaluation of identity, and limitations imposed by social borders. Through this, she constructs her own mythology, nourished by memory and by the process of rediscovering her culture and roots. Here, the compositions present a cosmology with animals that carry their own meanings—figures that recur throughout the paintings in different situations, acting as chapters of a narrative.

On the other hand, Caroline introduces fantasy as a tool for the survival of the human psyche in hostile environments or situations, as if persistence were also built through mental escape from reality via imagination. Here, the compositions often depict everyday situations that refer to the real, yet include small elements with meanings that do not belong to that reality, functioning as markers of distance and as confirmation that it is only a fantasy. This fantasy may be a past experience in the form of comfort, or a perspective of the future.