MARIANA MAURICIO
2014-12-01“During the process I’m always reading, trying to make theoretical connections, and seeking similarities. I made these works thinking about domestic space, guilt and the weights that we carry. However, I only realised that after the work was done. First the work materializes, then I find meanings.
About a year ago, in addition to photographs, I started collecting things Iencountered in my daily life, mainly found along the paths I walk. Sometimes I walk seven, eight hours, whole days, seeking something indeterminate – until I find it. It has no predetermined order and no tangible rule.
My studio today looks like a hoarder’s house – and it is!
The process of finding things and photos, in that space, is a second step after collecting things in the street (The third step would be to start making combinations / assemblages). My workspace consists of 5 tables. The objects and photos go from one to the other as the combinations are being formed, in a process of simplification. There is the table of the excluded, the table of the chosen, the table of those who are already “grouped”. There is even a table for the tests that went wrong and could potentially turn into something else.
Opposite – Doméstico, 2014
Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2014
Galeria Leme
Av. Valdemar Ferreira 130
05501-000 São Paulo
Brazil
