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Artist: Eneida Sanches |
| Exhibition: Artificial Afrika |
| Date: January 27 2006 - March 17 2006 |
Curator: C. Daniel Dawson and Vernon Reid
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Bio:
It was already nine years that Afro-Brazilian symbols were dominant in my work of art, presenting its influence in every way: colors, forms, textures, composition; a powerful universe to which I had dedicated time, research and production.
Two simultaneous exhibits, in February/March 2001 gave me the opportunity to bring to public the most significant part of such production, and, as part of the contract with institutions that invited me to United States, I was asked to speak to a public about these pieces. I thought then: that could be the right moment to close a cycle, to finish a long relationship with that symbology and move into a new direction.
During that same time, I had a chance to visit the visceral installations of Cuban artist Carlos Guaraicoa, see the some of Leonard Drews paintings, and read much of what Walter Benjamin had written on extra-body perceptions. The strong content of these oeuvres abruptly drew my reflections towards issues related to the trance state to my own surprise, tough, since this theme is so much part of the same universe I was intended to get away from. However, this trance did encompasses and cross over the boundaries of religious universe symbology: it is the trance of art making, the trance of Walter Benjamin, Miles Davis and Bispo do Rosario, wearable trance that uses the body as support for art.
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