Sheila Kruger
Sheila Kruger is a Brazilian collage and visual artist, psychoanalytic art therapist specializing in elderly individuals living in long-term care homes, and social worker. Born in Santa Catarina and currently based in Campinas, São Paulo, her practice unfolds through memory, silence, mystery, and the feminine experience.
Her work emerges from an ongoing engagement with what time leaves behind: fragments, traces, shadows, and suspended presences that persist beyond disappearance. Memory, in her practice, is not linear or complete, but unstable, intimate, and deeply sensory. It survives through fleeting impressions—a scent, a faded photograph, a carefully preserved dress, the dust settling upon a forgotten object.
Rather than presenting memory as recollection alone, Kruger approaches it as a living territory where absence and presence coexist. Her work searches for the fragile remnants of the invisible: the lived, the lost, the silenced, and the imagined. Through collage and assemblage, she constructs poetic spaces in which absence acquires form and forgotten narratives resurface. Each composition becomes an attempt to approach something intangible—an echo, a longing, a persistence that resists erasure.
A significant part of her artistic investigation is devoted to women’s histories and to the ways memory is transmitted across generations. Photographs, fabrics, lace, letters, and domestic artifacts become vessels of lived experience. Within these materials reside stories interrupted, overlooked, or erased by time and social structures.
Rather than merely revisiting the past, Kruger reimagines it. Her works propose new narratives of resilience, transformation, and permanence while acknowledging the marks left by history. The female figures inhabiting her compositions are neither nostalgic nor idealized; they are reconstructed, opening spaces for new possibilities of existence without erasing the traces they carry.
Her collages and assemblages may be understood as landscapes of memory—spaces where the past continues to whisper and where fragments of women’s lives are reborn through delicacy, poetry, silence, and mystery. Each artwork is accompanied by a carefully selected poem, establishing a dialogue between image and language. Through this encounter, visuality and lyricism intertwine, inviting the viewer into a contemplative and deeply intimate experience.
Website: sheilakruger.com.br
IG: @sheilakruger__