Millan (2024)
Calvino’s second memo, quickness, an essential tool for developing narrative, makes it possible to establish an agile dialog with the reader (or, in this case, the viewer), facilitating an understanding of the work. Through embroidery, Ana Amorim denounces the problem of species extinction, referring to the killing of howler monkeys in the Cantareira mountains. In registering this disappearance, the artist reinvents herself as a narrator and witness to this history, where the death of a primate foreshadows an environmental crisis.
In her clearly autobiographical work, Ana Amorim protests like the Cosme character in The Baron in the Trees (1957), the son of an aristocrat who climbs a tree and refuses to come down. “Those who wish to observe the earth well should keep a necessary distance,” the novel’s protagonist recommends. Ana follows this advice.
Works:
Bugio, 2021
Work about the death of the Howler monkeys at Serra da Cantareira with an embroidered map of February 11th, 2021; mercerized cotton thread embroidered on linen napkin.
51 x 51 cm [20 x 20 in]
Homeless, 2019
“Map highlighting homelessness in São Paulo made on October 30th, 2019”; black gel pen on white linen-cotton napkin.
40.5 x 40.5 cm [16 x 16 in]
Info:
Seis propostas de Calvino [Calvino's Six Memos]
Curated by Antonio Gonçalves Filho
With works by Ana Amorim, Cassio Michalany, Emmanuel Nassar, Miguel Rio Branco, Tatiana Blass, and Thiago Hattnher.
Opening: Saturday, August 3, from 11am to 3pm
Exhibition: August 3 – September 6, 2024
“Map highlighting homelessness in São Paulo made on October 30th, 2019”; black gel pen on white linen-cotton napkin.
40.5 x 40.5 cm [16 x 16 in]
Work about the death of the Howler monkeys at Serra da Cantareira with an embroidered map of February 11th, 2021; mercerized cotton thread embroidered on linen napkin.
51 x 51 cm [20 x 20 in]