Jacqueline Machado de Souza

For Jacqueline Machado de Souza art is an embedded activity that is constantly discovering and elaborating its position. Her artistic practice is based on the diverse ways in which she engages with drawing, photography, video and content from her personal archive. In a wide array of processes and procedures she explores the possibilities of these media, articulating an extensive vocabulary on the nature of the image.

For the series Na Palma da Mão (In the Palm of the Hand), 2025, she developed a distinctive technique using traditional Sennelier ink, opening a discourse on the interplay between the support and the supported, while recalling the surrealist method of decalcomania. The result is an idiosyncratic cosmos of layered images. Depending on the viewer’s distance, the spectator may experience a fusion between the sensations of carrying and being carried. The landscapes created by the artist’s hand give wings to the human capacity for pareidolia and imagination: a cycle of micro-oases amid a world in turmoil.

Since her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt (Belgium) she exhibited on numerous venues, including at the Prince Claus Fund in The Hague, Museum Het Domein in Sittard, Balin House Projects in London, the 4th and 6th Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels in Liège, and the Memorial Edson Queiroz, Brazil.

Works were acquired by Defauwes Collection (Netherlands), Annemie van Laethem Collection (Belgium), Guy & Riet Hendrickx Collection (Antwerpen), Artotheek (The Hague), Zuyderland Medical Center (Heerlen), and other (private) collections.