Sandra Chinelate - Prismatic memory

Title: Prismatic memory
Oil painting on canvas
Unframed
Dimensions: 30 × 40 × 1.8 cm
Fully painted edges plus a hanger make the work ready to hang.
Year: 2026
With certificate of authenticity
Signed bottom right

Through an hyperrealist language, Prismatic Memory explores the formal qualities of amethyst, highlighting the complex interaction between light, transparency, and crystalline structure. The descriptive precision of the work guides the gaze beyond the natural data, transforming the mineral into a presence of strong visual and contemplative intensity.

Sandra Chinelate, Brazilian, pursues an inquiry into the physical and existential aspects conducted with the tools of figurative painting. Trained in literature, and from a young age a self-taught artist, she moved to Italy and, influenced by her multiple sociolinguistic gaze, conducts her painting research with the aim of promoting a meeting among different social subjects, where different ages, skin colors, passions and human doubts are contemplated starting from a strong artist’s desire to exalt their facets, safeguarding her subjects from any prejudice. She devotes herself with equal fervor to the search for detail, light, and perspective in her beloved technique of hyperrealism, in which she has specialized since her first artistic experiments. Since 2005 she has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. She works with oil and mixed media on canvas and panel.
For the catalog of one of her most important solo exhibitions, she commissioned the Roman art critic Lea Mattarella; at the end of that review she wrote: "and if there is pain, if there is struggle, Chinelate makes Rumi, the medieval Sufi poet, her own words, convinced that ‘the wound is the point from which light can penetrate into you’".
This law Sandra Chinelate applies to the human soul she depicts just as to objects, all in equal balance in importance and order