AO AMOR DO PÚBLICO I – DOAÇÕES NA ARTRIO (2012-2015) E MINC/FUNARTE | 2016

Splendid cradle | 2004 

I found this map of South America in História dos índios no Brasil, edited by Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. It serves to geographically locate the [Brazilian] indigenous ethnic groups discussed in the book’s various texts. I was immediately touched by the image of a continent that, devoid of the political boundaries we know today, is beautifully presented through the very design of its rivers.

• embroidery on antique cotton pillow case
• 60 x 60 x 20 cm
• EXHIBITIONS: 'Galerie Caroline Vachet’, Lyon, França / ‘Métissages’, Espace d’Art Actuel, Le Radar e Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux, França; Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, França; Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonésia; Museum Nasional, Jacarta, Indonésia; James H. W. Thompson Center for the Arts, Bangkok, Tailândia; ‘Métissages’, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, França / ‘L’autre métissages’, Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore, La Paz, Bolívia
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Photo: Kristine Thiemann