Chantal Simone (1977) is a Canadian‑Brazilian visual artist based in Rio de Janeiro. Her work moves through grand narratives and collective memory, shaped by the sensibility of magical realism. For her, photography is a stage where atmosphere and gesture reveal inner life, and the ordinary leans toward the imagined.

Color is central to her work as dramaturgy, shifting mood and meaning. Abstraction, by pulling things out of context, becomes a way to intensify what is seen.

For over three decades, Chantal has treated photography as philosophy: a way to probe narrative, myth, and the psychology of looking. Her images resist surface, offering meditations on resilience, ancestry, and the human condition, where ritual and drama blur with the roles we play and the truths they conceal.