Ilusiontale

This work is the result of my recent investigations on the aesthetic value of daily objects, which we accumulate around us or destroy when they are no longer useful, although they affect and modify our personal lives. It points at the ambivalent dynamics of a work of art as fetish object that implies a new relation between belief and critical thinking. Is it possible to consider an object, whether if it is a jewel or part of our outfit, as something more than “prisoner of its materiality”? What happens when we grant them a “soul” that gives them magical or transforming properties? This different sensitivity projects the evoking power of artworks, creating an enigmatic atmosphere in which a feeling of presence is, precisely, what resists the materiality of those objects. Illusiontale consists of eleven fetish objects made by hand that receive a symbolic meaning when they are used. Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2019-2020 Catalogue