MARINA WEFFORT: LUGAR DAS COISAS

Marilia Razuk Gallery presents "Lugar das Coisas" (Place of Things), second solo exhibition from Marina Weffort at the gallery, bringing sculptures, objects, photos and paintings.

To explore the theme Still Life , the artist uses paint on canvas and appropriation of objects and photos, creating unusual arrangements that seek to reflect on the form, function and symbolic place of the chosen elements. The sample is divided into objects that extend from its structure fragmentation and movement operations and parts, and in contrast, works that create condensed images suggesting repose. 

"Painting Ellipse" is a painting into 12 parts arranged in a line, side by side, but with generous spacing. Constructed from a single painting divided and reordered, the work creates a composition that raises doubts about the merits of each party, proposing a mental reconstruction of the painting that was lost.

In "Place of Things", the artist presents a series of 12 images found on used objects for sale websites. Below each image we find the name of the object as its identification on the website . The appropriation evidences, by the the type of composition and framing of images chosen by the author and seller of objects, the relationship with the genre of still life in art history .

Marina Weffort was born in São Paulo in 1978 . Lives and works in São Paulo .

Her work reflects concepts of movement and stateness, together with a reflection on the passage of time, to the sphere of building forms. Hes sculptures embody banal objects such as time sheets, bottles and stones, classic symbol of still life in static structures that pump with latent movement. Individually exhibited at Galeria Marilia Razuk (2014, 2010), Centro Cultural São Paulo (2009), where she won the prize acquisition, participated in several group exhibitions as Instavel, curated by Douglas Freitas at the Palace of Arts (2012) Nova Escultura Brasileira, at Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro (2011), Quase Figura, at Marilia Razuk Gallery (2011), Programa de Exposições no MARP, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto (2009), among others.