GALERIE CAROLINE VACHET | 2009

Lyon, França

Curator: Yves Sabourin

Description of works

1 – Waiting for birds | 2009 

While searching for accounts on the making of feather objects, I came across a scene described by anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro in his Diários índios: he is alone, in the middle of a village, while all the others have gone off into the forest in search of feathers and birds. Based on that image, I created visions of the forest that surrounded him.

Photo: Claudia Tavares (detalhe) e Wilton Montenegro

2 – Splendid cradle | 2004 

Encontrei este mapa da América do Sul, no livro História dos índios no Brasil, organizado por Manuela Carneiro da Cunha: serve para localizar, geograficamente, as etnias indígenas citadas nos textos que reúne. Fui imediatamente tocado pela imagem de um continente que, livre das fronteiras políticas que hoje conhecemos, apresenta-se belamente pelo simples traçado dos seus rios.

  • embroidery on antique cotton pillow case
  • 60 x 60 x 20 cm
  • EXHIBITIONS: 'Ao amor do público I – Doações na ArtRio (2012-2015) e MinC/Funarte’, Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / ‘Métissages’, Le Radar, Espace d’Art Actuel, e Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux, França; Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, França; Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung; Museum Nasional, Jacarta, Indonésia; James H. W. Thompson Center for the Arts, Bangkok, Tailândia; Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, França / ‘L’autre métissages’, Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolívia 
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Photo: Kristine Thiemann

1 - Memory is the seamstress, and a very fine seamstress at that. Memory makes the needle run in and out, up and down and to and fro. We know not what comes next, what will come later | 2007

Using a collection of embroidered initials in cotton, which served to mark who owned a clothing, I developed, together with artisans from Cooparoca, a cooperative of Rocinha [favela], in Rio de Janeiro, this idea of ​​a garment that would have belonged to countless numbers of women.

  • initials embroidered on cotton smock
  • 150 x 50 cm
  • EXHIBITIONS: 'Amor’, Museu Casa de Benjamin Constant, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / ‘Retalhar’, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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Photo: Wilton Montenegro

4 – Scar | 2005

There was a great deal of thread leftover in this piece of buckram from my earliest experiments with embroidery. Slowly, the image of a scar that was to mark my childhood emerged from it.

Photo: Kristine Thiemann

    5 - I am a crystal goblet into the sea | 2009

    This video presents some moments from the breaking a Crystal glass and goblet collection that I amassed over 20 years. Linked to very personal and intimate matters, this act represented a moment of rupture and transformation in my life.

    The breaking of the glasses took place during the mounting of the exhibition “Memórias Heterogêneas,” at the Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, in 2004.

      • 10’31” video loop loop
      • EXHIBITIONS: 'ObaOba’, Galeria Bangbang, Lisboa, Portugal / Sessão Corredor, Ateliê 397, São Paulo, Brasil
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