LITTLE PAINTING | 2019

My maternal grandmother painted this in the 1910s, during her adolescence. Stored away for many years, it recently came into my possession, and the tenuous, impalpable apparition on its reverse immediately drew my attention.

• oil on silk
• 19 x 14 cm
• EXHIBITIONS: 'What we don’t have the nerve to throw away’, Galeria Inox, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Photo: Wilton Montenegro