POÉTICA TÊXTIL | 2009
Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brasil
Curator: Gláucia Amaral
Description of works
1 – 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.
- tarlatan, cotton thread
- 10 x φ 60 cm
- EXHIBITIONS: 'Galerie Caroline Vachet‘, Lyon, França
- access the work page here
Photo: Kristine Thiemann
2 – Embroidering in silence | 2009–16
To make my own what I received as an inheritance - a linen tablecloth set from my parents’ wedding trousseau, - I began to cover its printwork in free embroidery that I created along with relatives and friends who contributed to the making of this work.
- printed linen tablecloth set, free embroidery on cotton
- variable dimensions
- EXHIBITIONS: 'Nós‘, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro e Brasília, Brasil
- access the work page here
Photo: Renato Bezerra de Mello
