Lenora de Barros

Minha Língua

Curated by Pollyana Quintella, the exhibition has a conceptual focus that focuses on works that discuss the relationship between body and language, in an arc that ranges from works from the beginning of her career to a commission produced especially for the occasion, including iconic productions such as “Poema” (1979) and the series “Procuro-me” (2003). 

Bringing together around 40 works by the visual artist from São Paulo, who uses photography, video, installation and performance as support, the exhibition brings together pieces such as “Homage to George Segal” (1975-2014) — an emblematic work of her production, the result of a school project that criticized consumer society, taking as inspiration the expressions in the works of the sculptor of the same name. 

Also presented is a new work commissioned especially for the exhibition entitled “The face. The tongue. The belly” (2022), a video composed of three acts in which Lenora explores different situations with clay in dialogue with her own body. 

THE ORGANIZATION  

The exhibition was organized in close dialogue with the exhibition Pinacoteca: acervo —new assembly of the mutheir collection, opened in October 2020, taking into account that in 2022, the country celebrates the centenary of the Semana de Arte Moderna and the bicentennial of its Independence.  

One of the highlights is the work Poema (1979), which is part of the mutheir collection, donated by the Patrons of Contemporary Art of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo 2018. A kind of synthesis of countless issues that the artist investigates, the work consists of a series of photographs in six acts that document an intimate and conflicting encounter between body and machine.