Twigs

  Curatorship Mônica Hoff • Pivô Art and Research, São Paulo, Brasil (2024)








After the Covid-19 pandemic, the tactics of racializing events through repetitive imagery of East-Asian bodies highlighted a power dynamic in media representation. This repetition reflects the dissolution of cultural symbols into embellishments. All these so-called “Oriental” aesthetics and the capture of cultural expressions as mere ornaments by Art History.

Faces as ornaments. Ancestry as adornment. The fetish that lives in repetition. Exploring this tension, the use of wood in art sought to provoke reflection on the Orientalism embedded in hegemonic narratives, exposing colonial truths and challenging perceptions. Art became a testing ground, revealing the complexities of negotiating identity within aesthetic friction.


"Twigs"
Wood, textiles, collected family objects, dry branches, chains, photos of known and unknown relatives.

62 x 46 x 27 cm.