The predominant themes of Chiara Baima Poma’s works are the sense of identity and the attraction to ancestral and spiritual forms such as myth, fable, and religions. The interaction of all these elements contaminates each other, giving life to a visual narrative of our present, which investigates the artist’s sense of identity and belonging. Baima Poma looks to the great masters of Italian Gothic painting. In fact, references to Giotto, Simone Martini, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Giovanni da Milano, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti are evident in her works. She creates a new pictorial imagery that draws expressive sap from popular narration, sayings, proverbs, and idioms of our present.
Chiara Baima Poma (Cuorgnè - TO, 1990). She graduated in 2010 from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin. She lives and works in Gran Canaria. In 2022, she won the Global Talent Art Prize. In the same year, she exhibited at Green Alley Studios and Black White Gallery in London, where she returned in 2023 with the solo exhibition It Costs To Be Austere. In 2023, she presented her works at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, Connecticut, in the exhibition Embodied Knowledge. In 2023 took place her solo exhibition at Simóndi Gallery (Turin), Mirrors for larks.