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MUSA MICHELLE MATTIUZZI

Jardim da Abolição

2020

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At Bienal 12 | Porto Alegre, the performer and visual artist Michelle Mattiuzzi presents the work Jardim da Abolição (2020), an installation articulating one hundred and one vases of varied sizes; eleven power herbs and flowers, cultivated by oral traditions and by Brazilian and Latin American healers (such as rosemary, rue, pepper, petiveria, or amansa-senhor, as it is known due to its strategic and subversive use by slaves); earth and the phrase in neon, 'A intuição liberta a imaginação” (intuition frees the imagination), borrowed from the text “A Dívida Impagável: Lendo Cenas de Valor Contra a Flecha do Tempo”, from Denise Ferreira da Silva. Jardim da Abolição presents itself as a monument-memorial to the use of camellia vases by abolitionists during the slavery abolition process in Brazil. On the other side, the piece also works as a kind of suggestion, declaring an intuitive abolition to the thought, in order to imagine the present from these power plants (black) and remember, nowadays, of significant and strategically subversive and radical gestures.

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