Mostra "I AM . IO SONO . EU SOU ARTE" - Locanda Barbarigo, San Marco 2503/A, Venice (italy), from April 12th till May 12th 2023.

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After a great reception by the Italian public, the exhibition of photographs by awardwinning Brazilian actress and photographer Aymara Limma “I am, Io sono, Eu sou Arte” is extended until June 12th and will continue to occupy the main hall of the Locanda Barbarigo Hotel ( Fondamenta Duodo o Barbarigo, # 2503/A), located in the San Marco

area, close to San Marco square, which is the heart of tourism in Venice, where the iconic Teatro La Fênice, the Basilica of San Marco and the Palazzo are located. Ducal. “I was invited to take the exhibition 'I am Arte', as I affectionately call it, to this beautiful locanda, in San Marco, and, obviously, I loved the invitation. I was even happier with the opportunity to spend another month in this locanda, which has a very Venetian decoration”, says Aymara, who opened the exhibition on April 12th. The visitation was from Monday to Saturday, from 14:00 to 18:00. Booking with  free admission is free. 

The exhibition made its debut in July 2022 and was on display at the “Cinema Barch-in” event, the drive-in cinema aboard a boat at the Venice Arsenal, the former Serenissima shipyard. Due to the good reviews, Aymara is making this new edition of her presentation, but revamped. “The initial show was designed especially for the large structure of the Arsenal in Venice, and I adapted it for the structure of the hotel. I expose some photos from the original exhibition, new photos and add a surprise: a mixture of photographs and paintings. In all, there are 15 photos and two 'picture-art paintings'. Thus, I call these my unpublished pieces”, explains Aymara, who, for this new version, changed the original title of the exhibition to “I am, Io sono, Eu sou Arte” – previously there was no word “art”. The change happened due to unpublishedimages that were included in the project and two paintings.

What was, at first, to be a way to occupy the mind, turned into serious talk. In the midst of lockdown, in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian actress Aymara Limma, living in Venice, in northern Italy, decided to reinvent herself: she took a camera and started recording seagulls. Thus, “The Gabbiani Project” (“O Projeto Gaivotas”, in free translation), which was born in an unpretentious way, took shape and the personal records became an exhibition open to the public, with several accolades, and with citations in the Italian and Portuguese press. Brazilian.

“I am very happy and with open arms to share these photos of seagulls in Venice, which touch my soul so deeply. I hope they can touch the heart and soul of everyone who has the pleasure of admiring them and having them as a daily inspiration, as it happens to me. I believe that these pictures of seagulls really have a great power of healing, liberation and strength. That's what they generated in me after I started photographing them during the pandemic lockdown. Observe, let yourself be touched, feel, fortify yourself and free yourself”, philosophizes the carioca, who plans to tour some cities in Italy with the exhibition. ‘I am, Io sono, Eu sou Arte’ on display until June 12