Eight works mix parts of the human body, plants and pearls in compositions with landscapes and people. In Rodrigo Martins' series of paintings, the operation of pointing out something that is there, but cannot be fully captured, is reiterated by veils and masks, and fragmented, camouflaged and hybridized details or parts, blurring the boundary between human and plant.
The realism of these images is questioned. The canvases offer the eye the materials and weights of painting, which magnetize the objects with the varying thicknesses of oil paint and suspend the instantaneous temporality of the technical image in a myriad of brushstrokes.
Interviews
Image and sound: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Editing: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Recording of the works
Image: Helena Wolfenson, Marcos Yoshi and Tom Butcher Cury
Sound: Tomás Franco
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