Friday, July 04, 2008

Generation 2000 against total chaos (part 165)

- Posição 2004: looking at the info. Next?
- Tereza Costa. No info, just photos. She painted on transparent glass, using her body as a rubber stamp. The photos are in black and white, but I believe the color she used was greyish blue. They were images protuding from the walls of the basement gallery. They look about A4 in size. They show parts of her: her thumb digital, one foot imprinted from its side, same thing with one hand, same thing with the side of one of her breasts (actually imprinting along part of her torso and shoulder), one of the side of her face and her hair, and one of her leg. The individual photo of this last one does not open, but the images of the installation indicate it was an imprint that included the front side of her upper leg and her underbelly on the imprint. That means imprinting her pubic hair, too. These six images were protuding from the walls, and would have been crushed if the mob upstairs came down to see the basement. I don't know what happened, but they didn't show up all at once, and I am very grateful! The installation was complete with another transparent glass mounted on a wood pedestal painted white, right in the middle of the hallway that is the basement gallery. It was the same thing: a blue inprint on transparent glass. Only it was bigger, for it was a front image of her torso, or so I think. And it was painted around the imprint. In the photo, it looks like something influenced by Jean Dubuffet and Yves Klein. In the end, it looked sexy, and menacing, and eerie, and primitive. Like going downstairs was getting the chance to be dazed and confused by some ancient mystery turned into glass and light monument. Good show!

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