Ludmila Steckelberg a.k.a. VahMirè, is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist and researcher based in Recife-Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (UFG-Brazil). She has just returned to Brazil after living for 14 years in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada, where she completed two master's programs, one in Museology (UdeM) and another in Art and Technology at UQAM. Her work has been exhibited in Europe (Germany and Lithuania), Canada (Quebec province), China (Shanxi province) and in her own country since 2005. In 2025 her work will be participating of a Brazilian art retrospective in London, Ontario, Canada. It has also been presented at several national and international publications and is part of private and public collections around the world.
For some years now, VahMirè has been working with a series of old photographs which she manipulates using digital and tangible interventions (textile). She has also worked on installations, composed by objects and textile artworks, where she tries to capture a sense of alterity and identity, perhaps lost in the immigration process.
Nowadays, she focuses her practice on photography, video-performance, video, and in the digital arts. Her aesthetics, at the crossroads between natural and supernatural, allows her to discuss presence and absence. VahMirè also approaches the question of identity fluidity caused by geographical context shifts.
Lately her work has been addressing the contact with the landscape (the body and the city), throughout strategies inspired by the Brazilian Anthropophagic Movement, to create a subjective, evolutive, world cartography of the cities she lives/lives/visits in the series Des[bravar] or (Un)wilding. Using photogrammetry - the capture of multiple photographs of a subject - VahMirè is creating 3D landscapes of places where she can feel a bilateral sense of belonging.
@ ludmila steckelberg, 2024