Waves
Waves is a narrative of ties in a sequence of drawings that picture some immaterial flux. These interconnected images resemble a biological creation that eventually, generates seashells_ the final painted image in the 9-meter-long paper used for this work.
Unrolling part of the paper each day turned Waves into a journal of the artistic residency period I spent in Lisbon_ where it was made. The movements of the body in the wavelength paper felt as if I were been hit by waves of memories, one after the other. The intensities of the crest and trough were remembered in the installation of the work with my desk and chair, which explored the ideas of continuity and circularity.
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil was an invitation to me to reconnect with my roots in the Iberian Peninsula. The inverted journey, made a century before by the great-grand-women of my family, was in my memory as a sense of direction I needed to acknowledge.
These feminine stories with water constructed tales of care and kinship that I translated as drawing and movement investigations in Waves. Handicraft tools, such as wool yarns and knitting needles, were recalled to my mind and body, and they were amalgamed with other images of symbiotic cycles, algae, laces, and shells_ elements that are intertwined in the conception of a new world.