POÉTICA TÊXTIL ⏐ 2009

Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil

Curator: Gláucia Amaral

1 Scar ⏐ 2005

There was a great deal of thread leftover in this piece of buckram from my earliest experiments with embroidery. Slowly, the image of a scar that was to mark my childhood emerged from it.

• tarlatan, cotton thread 
• 10 x φ 60 cm 
• OTHER EXHIBITIONS: Galerie Caroline Vachet, Lyon, France
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Photograph: Kristine Thiemann

2 Embroidering in silence ⏐ 2009–16

To make my own what I received as an inheritance—a linen tablecloth set from my parents’ wedding trousseau—, I began to cover its printwork in free embroidery that I created along with relatives and friends who contributed to the making of this work.

• printed linen tablecloth set, free embroidery on cotton
• variable dimensions
• OTHER EXHIBITIONS: “Nós,” Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro e Brasília, Brazil
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Photograph: Renato Bezerra de Mello