Cartas para Ultramares (2020)
Boneco de livro
Letters to Ultramarine (Cartas para Ultramares) is an author design book that combines images and poems produced as part of the homonymous research. Prior to the presentation of the work at the Parallel Curatorship (Dublin) and FotoFest (Houston), twenty dummies of the book were printed in English (five numbered) and ten in Portuguese (3 numbered). Copies can be purchased directly from the artist.
Cartas para Ultramares (2019)
??In Letters to Ultramarine I attempt to create an anthology of the discomforts that surround me, collecting fragments from the urban, upper middle class, Latin-American landscape stressed by the echoes of colonialism and the footsteps of globalized capitalism.
As outdated and exogenous models of progress quietly, but violently, shape the environment, I run out of landmarks and out of solid ground to set my feet on. From buildings to trees, everything looks like a function of a culture whose sole purpose is the consumption, but that nevertheless produces nothingness. Anthropocene’s heterogeneous foam expands, suffocating everything, and smashing me between the beauty of the sight and the rage of reality.
It becomes harder and harder to navigate through this space that's hyper-codified, and yet, deprived from deeper meaning. But carefully observing these pieces of absence that surround me, I seek to modulate the unavoidable tension sparked by growing up in this environment where meaningful bonds and experiences are built amid (and, sometimes, drawing from) intense cultural interference.
