Room 1
Hair Grids with Knots, 2006
Hair
30 x 20 cm
Courtesy of the artist
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This ethereal and delicate work is constructed out of several grids of carefully knotted and woven human hair. Almost impossibly difficult to control, the delicate threads create a diaphanous and fragile patchwork that, once installed at a slight distance from the gallery wall, becomes almost invisible and flutters with any slight air movement.
Cube (9 x 9 x 9), 2008
Steel
181 x 182 x 182 cm
Private collection, Caracas, Venezuela
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This cube is a closed and dangerous sculpture made of barbed wire, a heavy encumbrance due to the symbolic weight of all the images that it evokes. Barbed wire is light, resistant and cheap – characteristics that made it powerful, sadly efficient and famous at the end of the nineteenth century – but here transformed into a murderous encumbrance that nonetheless creates a stunning architecture of light and minimal form.
A Bigger Splash, 2009
Murano glass
variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artista
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Borrowing a title from a well-known painting by David Hockney, A Bigger Splash was inspired by and made in the glass workshops of Murano near Venice. Delicate, coronet shapes of deep red glass sit on the floor, reminiscent of droplets of liquid. Unlike the cool splash of water depicted mid-motion in Hockney's picture, however, their deep red colour could suggest splashes of blood.
Clouds (18), 2008
Oil and ink on cardboard tray
16,5 x 23,5 cm
Collection Ana Carmen Longobardi, São Paulo
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A cardboard tray for take-away food that shows the traces of oil left behind. The artist has outlined the accidental shapes of the oil stains to create a cluster of clouds or even a map of an imaginary territory.