"The Time" Painting

Catia Goffinet (b. 1973, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist whose practice moves between geometric abstraction and figurative painting, exploring tensions between order and instability. In her geometric series, she investigates light and shadow as structural elements that shape perception, creating minimal compositions that evoke balance, silence, and spatial expansion. In parallel, her paintings on aluminum introduce the human body as a point of rupture. Figures in states of falling or suspension traverse rigid surfaces, creating a friction between the permanence of the material and the instability of human experience. The aluminum, often associated with precision and durability, becomes a field where the body reveals moments of transition, displacement, and loss of control. Her work operates through contrasts such as lightness and weight, control and surrender, permanence and transformation, focusing on the threshold where something ceases to hold and another possibility begins to emerge.