BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

55 Favoris>Europe Fall-Winter 2009-2010 Cover by JANAINA TSCHÄPE 2009 Janaina Tschäpe. Born in 1973 in Munich, Germany, she lives and works in New York, USA and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. J anaina Tschäpe is german and brazilian. Her work has a certain magic, a rite of possession that is as related to the light of german romanticism as to the shadows of afro-brazilian transe rituals. Her work is rich with signs and body language. In keeping with her practice of cross-dressing nature and of creating hybrid creatures with the aid of colorful blow-ups, condoms filled with water, extensi- ble costumes and modeling clay, Janaina Tschäpe is a botanist of the imaginary. Her works are present in numerous museums, such as National Gallery of Art-Washington D.C., Centre Pompidou-Paris, Centro de Arte Reina Sophia- Madrid, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-New York, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Vienna. ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER