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Poema (Poem)

Lenora de Barros1979

Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Lenora de Barros was born in 1953 in São Paulo, where she continues to live and work. In 1970 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and immediately began considering the interactions between her already developed poetry practice and visual art. In 1979 she developed one of her first visual poems, Poema, a series of photographs depicting the artist’s tongue interacting with the mechanism of a typewriter. While text always remained central to her work, de Barros’s practice later expanded to live, video-recorded, or photographed performance. Still actively creating today, de Barros incorporates tenets of pop art, Fluxus, conceptual art, and body art to explore bisual and verbal communication

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  • Title: Poema (Poem)
  • Creator: Lenora de Barros
  • Date Created: 1979
  • Physical Dimensions: 55 × 11 ¾ in. (139.7 × 29.8 cm) overall
  • Rights: Photography: Fabiana de Barros. Courtesy of Lenora de Barros and Galeria Millan, São Paulo. © Lenora de Barros
  • External Link: Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1965 at the Hammer Museum
  • Medium: Six black-and-white inkjet prints on paper
  • Original Source: Lenora de Barros and Galeria Millan, São Paulo
  • Nationality of Artist: Brazilian
  • Life Dates of Artist: b. 1953
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