[[WHERE THE WILD BARBIES ARE///COMO NASCEM AS BARBIES]] (2023)

[[Digital photographs printed on tracing paper///Fotografias digitais impressas com pigmentos minerais sobre papel vegetal]]

20 x 30 cm [[each///cada]]

[[Aware of the tensions situated in a female body increasingly idealized by consumer society, which massacres it and places it in an unattainable, false, unhealthy standard, I let myself be carried away by my interest in transitive states. The passage between things and ambiguous construction processes.

Living rooted in one place induced plants to develop numerous ingenious mechanisms to deal with the challenges that animals might face by fleeing. In our materialized and aestheticized existence, through our own bodies we build the relationship of identity and otherness, through art we avoid the poor simulacrum of normality and deny the verticality of meaning.

In the virtual information society, images are digitally manipulated, the difference between reality and fiction becomes blurred. My photographs combine images of the body-object with tubers and their roots no longer find fixation in this world. Pointed metallic elements are added to them, to remind us of the trivialization of pain in cosmetic practices linked to the voluntary servitude of the cult of beauty in contemporary mechanistic medicine, where one thing fixes another thing.

The photographic prints on translucent paper reveal the fragility and transience of these bodies that resist the winds, and the work refuses to accept the violence of modern capitalist thought by making us care for ethereal things. While the repetitions reaffirm the emotional emergency of starring in our own story.

Culturally, we are used to the argument about the natural connection between women and the home. I am interested in exploring the idea of a being structured by the private sphere that ends up being incorporated into the interior of architecture. From this perspective, the installation takes place by piercing the walls of the exhibition space with needles, in a process of incorporating the female image into the environment. Material images of the fragile body in suspension evoke the cultural weight of female identity which, in turn, imprisons their apparently free and airy bodies.

The repertory of domestic materials employed (pins, needles, dolls, vegetables) makes the works banally pleasant at first, and then it becomes disturbing. While the feminine universe mas been preserved, it may also been misplaced and questioned as there is something absolutely brutal, absolutely painful in every work. Violence is shown in the space of beauty, of tranquil domestic delights which culture has set aside for women. (The theme of a violent construction of beauty is more or less present in a constant fashion in a series of my artworks.)///Atenta às tensões situadas em um corpo feminino cada vez mais idealizado pela sociedade de consumo, que o massacra e coloca em um padrão inatingível, falso, doentio, me deixo levar pelo interesse em estados transitivos. A passagem entre as coisas e processos ambíguos de construção.

Viver enraizadas em um lugar induziu as plantas a desenvolverem inúmeros mecanismos engenhosos para lidar com desafios que animais podem enfrentar fugindo. Em nossa existência materializada e estetizada, por meio do próprio corpo construimos a relação de identidade e alteridades, por meio da arte evitamos o pobre simulacro da normalidade e negamos a verticalidade de sentido.

Na sociedade da informação virtual imagens são manipuladas digitalmente, a diferença entre realidade e ficção foram diluídas. Minhas fotografias acoplam imagens do corpo objeto com tubérculos e suas raizes que, não mais encontram fixação nesse mundo. À eles acrescentam-se elementos metálicos afiados, para nos lembrar da banalização da dor em práticas cosméticas ligadas a servidão voluntária do culto à beleza na medicina mecanicista contemporânea, onde uma coisa conserta outra coisa.

As impressões em papel translúcido revelam a fragilidade e transitoriedade desses corpos que resistem aos ventos, e o trabalho recusa-se a aceitar a violência do pensamento capitalista moderno ao fazer-nos cuidar de coisas etéreas. Enquanto as repetições reafirmam a emergência emocional de protagonizarmos a própria história.

Culturalmente, estamos habituadas ao argumento da ligação natural entre a mulher e a casa. Me interessa explorar a ideia de um ser estruturado pela esfera privada que acaba por incorporar-se ao interior da arquitetura. Nessa perspectiva, a instalação se dá perfurando com agulhas as paredes do espaço expositivo, em um processo de incorporação da imagem feminina ao ambiente. Imagens do sólido e frágil corpo em suspensão evocam o peso cultural da identidade mulher que, por sua vez, aprisiona seus corpos aparentemente livres e aerados.

O repertório de materiais domésticos empregados (alfinetes, agulhas, bonecas, vegetais) torna as obras inicialmente banalmente agradáveis, para depois se tornarem perturbadoras. Embora o universo feminino tenha sido preservado, ele também pode ter sido deslocado e questionado, pois há algo absolutamente brutal, absolutamente doloroso em cada obra. A violência se manifesta no espaço da beleza, das tranquilas delícias domésticas que a cultura reservou às mulheres. (O tema de uma construção violenta da beleza está mais ou menos presente de forma constante em minhas séries.)]]

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