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Photograph by Antônio Extra. All photos courtesy of Oscar Niemeyer Museum, shared with permission
In O Jardim, Efrain Almeida cultivates the recollections of his dad and mom’ house within the backlands of Ceará, Brazil. Carved picket creatures populate the gallery at Oscar Niemeyer Museum, showing as if they might buzz and flutter throughout the house. Comprising about 40 sculptures, work, and embroideries, the exhibition reinterprets the intimate, contemplative backyard Almeida loved as a toddler.
Using varied mediums and supplies, the artist first started working in wooden whereas in his father’s studio. “I drew and made the silhouette, and he cut it on a bandsaw. Then I made the sculpture itself,” the artist says. The 2 had a tough relationship, and Almeida discovered that this shared course of was a fruitful level of connection. He provides:
This manufacturing brings the data of the hand—even the best way of holding the piece—and the warmth that the hand transfers to the supplies you’re employed with. This hand can carry again a form of ancestral reminiscence. All of this, for me, has a relationship of ancestry and the transmission of information via this kind of sluggish and silent ritual that’s handbook work. A lot of the communication that I start to determine with my father is a silent form of alternate.
Almeida incessantly returns to the hummingbird as a motif in his work, and on this exhibition, the diminutive creature seems with its beak piercing a lush orange flower. Painted in purples, greens, and oranges, the iridescent chook symbolizes a connection to “rainbow(s), water, and the spirit of the forest,” the artist says, and is a perfect motif for the methods one thing so small can reveal a broader connection to position, nature, and belonging. “These moments,” he provides, “are very dear and important, in the sense of realizing that it is something bigger, that it is a vibration, that it is a connection with my history.”
O Jardim is on view via October 20, in Curitiba, Brazil.
Photograph by Antônio Extra
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
Photograph by Eduardo Ortega
#animals
#birds
#Efrain Almeida
#sculpture
#wooden
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