Sol Casal (1984) lives and works in São Paulo. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2008).

Her research spans the languages of photography, performance, video, and installation, using elements and symbols drawn from mystical and religious imagery often associated with popular manual traditions. In addition, she uses her own body as an object of investigation to discuss the relationships between representation and presentation of the female body in contemporary society.

Among the exhibitions in which she has participated are CONTRAMEMÓRIA, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2022); Transbordar: Transgressões do Bordado na Arte, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo (2020); and TRIANGULAR Arte deste Século, Casa da Cultura da América Latina da Universidade de Brasília (2019). In 2019, she held her first solo exhibition in São Paulo, CÉUS CRUZADOS, at Ateliê 397. She also participated in the residencies Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (2019) and Residência Artística Transmetatlanticus Portugal/Brasil – Brasil/Portugal (2020).

Her work is part of the collections of Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos; Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul; and Universidade de Brasília.

Nossa Senhora do Leite e do Bom Parto (2023) is a hand-embroidered piece made over approximately one year, encompassing the artist’s entire pregnancy. The work invites reflection on the interrelations between feminized artistic practices (such as embroidery) and the ways in which, in contemporary societies, the time of women’s lives—of motherhood and breastfeeding—is exogenous to the time of labor, production, and capitalism. Thus, the piece reflects on the devaluation of women’s work in Western societies.

The image is based on a photograph of an existing, though little-known, sculpture, prompting us to think about authorship, sexuality, eroticism, and the representation of the female body in a patriarchal society.

The frame that accompanies the work features breasts intertwined with Baroque arabesques, sometimes revealed and sometimes barely perceptible.