collage, drawings and objects on cotton cloth painted with acrylic (set of 365, approx. 14 x 14 cm each)
I started a graphic piece referencing the term used by the IMF for a set of neoliberal reforms imposed to governments. I had just moved back to São Paulo from London and the impact of those measures caught my attention.
Routine: To search for media articles which illustrated the consequences of these measures in people's lives.
items collected and stored in transparent plastic bags (set of 258, 20 x 16 cm each).
In the area I lived in São Paulo there were several social and economic problems. I decided to study the solutions people around me found for everyday problems, creating a use value that sometimes could be exchanged. I documented them in drawings and photos, being as little invasive as possible.
The project consisted in transferring my mental maps from the 1988 Books into 366 canvasses (MFA thesis project).
366 pieces, acrylic on canvas (21.3x13.4cm each).
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Every night, I drew my metal map of the day on a black EVA board. The next morning, I cut out the EVA board around the lines of the map.
183 pieces, watercolor white pencil on cut out black EVA (approx. 20x14cm each).
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“Every night during the year 2019 I had the following routine:
1. I counted seconds for one hour;
2. I registered a written map of the day;
3. I registered a full map of the day;
4. I registered the locator number for the day;
5. I registered a simplified map of the day.”
365 pieces (29.7x42cm each piece), pen on paper.
Picture: Ana Pigosso
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This routine consisted in me looking for an object from my immediate surrounding, seeking to capture the color spectrum around me, as soon as I finished drawing my daily map. I stored the object inside a plastic sandwich bag and labeled it with the number of hours until the end of the year, number of days for the end of the year, my age and the number of the “Large Canvas 2” map for the day.
365 pieces, label, various objects inside 365 plastic sandwich bags (209x557cm in total)
Picture: Filipe Berndt
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Routine: I drew a map on a fabric strip in 2 colors, black for everyday routes and red for new routes. Then, I sewed a piece of fabric (clothe, linen, etc) to the work, cutout from my immediate surrounding. Lastly, I counted seconds for one hour, in my own time.
318 pieces, ballpoint pen and sewed cut out fabric on of strip of cloth (61x14cm each).
Picture: Filipe Berndt
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These maps were registered every night in smaller segments on aged cardboard shipping labels.
During May 2005, I participated in the Agrarian Reform march in Brazil and for three weeks these maps are also the maps of fifteen thousand people.
365 pieces, ballpoint pen on beige aged cardboard shipping labels (16x7.8cm each).
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Routine: At the end of the day I drew my mental map for the day on a white linen tablecloth divided in 32 rectangles.
12 pieces, black ballpoint archival ink gel pen of white linen tablecloths (140X235cm each piece)
Picture: Ana Pigosso
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Routine: At the end of the day I drew my mental map for the day on a white linen tablecloth divided in 32 rectangles.
12 pieces, black ballpoint archival ink gel pen of white linen tablecloths (140X235cm each piece)
Picture: Ana Pigosso
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Single piece. 366 maps, white mercerized cotton thread hand embroidered on black cotton cloth (approx. 210 x 310cm).
Embroidery of the "Continuous Map" project from 2016, on a single large cloth. These maps were drawn daily in a small book and later transferred to this black cloth and then embroidered. It took me approximately 2 years to finish embroidering the work.
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