Carla Cerejo has exhibited all over Europe in the last three years and recently graduated from an MA in printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts. Originally hailing from Barthala in Portugal her work lies largely in the realm of subversion and political dissent, exposing the darker sides of human desire, attachment, vanity and obsession. These recent illustrations, inspired by the likes of Goya and Gustav Doré, explore the contemporary ethical debates surrounding genetic manipulation and the historical perception society commonly holds of those viewed of as 'freaks', "In the middle ages surgeons worked whilst artists made drawings of deformed patients under the knife," she says, "I wanted to reflect that process, flawed micro scale genetic engineering could have huge consequences in the physical body on a macro scale." In a nuclear age which is already seeing radioactive mutations occurring at the bottom rung of the food chain, perhaps her bleak visions of a deformed humanity have a prophetic edge without genetic research even being entered into the equation, let's hope not.

Living and suffering as any other human being.

Making art.

Both! I'm always looking at Walter Benjamin's text :"Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction."

The shoes used by Margerith Duras when she was waiting for the boat in Saigon.

a better understanding of our ecological problems.

Is starting here.

Ana, my mother.

Books, etchings and lots of fun.

To have fallen from a peach tree and left my dress back above it.

My friends.

This one.