Rosana Paulino
“Working as an artist on a crisis like this caused by coronavirus in a country such as Brazil is not only a form to maintain my sanity but to resist the arbitrariness from an extreme right-wing government such as President Jair Bolsonaro. It is important to show art in the current moment and to register it for history. But, at the same time, it is important to show the link between this situation and the past represented by the slavery period. In Brazil, the majority of people that will suffer from corona are the poor and it means to a large part, the black people. As used to happen in the past, this population was abandoned as it is being abandoned now. To show and to register it, to point out that there does exist a link between past and present is essential to the discussion about what means be black in Brazil.“
Untitled from Búfala series, 2020. Watercolor and graffiti on paper.
Photo: José Fujocka Neto.
Untitled from Jatobá series, 2020. Watercolor and graffiti on paper, 65 × 50 cm.
Photo: José Fujocka Neto.
A Geometria à Brasileira Chega ao Paraíso Tropical (The Brazilian Geometries arrives at the Tropical Paradise), 2018. Digital printing, collage and monotype on paper, 48 × 33 cm.
Photo: Isabella Matheus
Paraíso tropical (Tropical Paradise), 2017. Digital print on fabric, cut out, acrylic and sewing, 96 × 110 cm.
Photo: Júlia Thompson
A Salvação das Almas (The Salvation of the souls), 2017. Digital print on fabric and sewing. 29,0 x 58,0 cm.
Photo: Cláudia Mello.
Rosana Paulino
Images courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood (Sao Paulo/New York)
Thanks to Simon Watson Arts https://simonwatsonarts.com/