“Strong Sword I”
Strong Sword I
(SKU. 13496)
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Date
2024 -
Technique
screen printing and beading on paper -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 50 x 60 x 4 cm -
Edition
15 + 3PA -
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Visual artist Aline Bispo uses her artistic production to investigate the ethnic and social constructions of Brazil. In “Espada forte”, a silkscreen print developed especially for Carbono Galeria, the snake plant, originally from the African continent, appears as the central figure of the piece. A symbol of protection, the plant popular in Brazil is present in homes and businesses, as well as in religious cults. The individual application of a string of beads in each work reinforces the artist’s research into the religious syncretisms present in Brazil. The color chosen for each string is connected to Ògún, an orisha who opens paths and is linked to nature, also related to the Catholic figure of Saint George, reiterating the fusion of beliefs that make up our country.
Ana Carolina Ralston
Biography
Aline Bispo
Artist Aline Bispo bases her practice on plurality. Her research encompasses various instances of the image. Bispo creates illustrations in which figures of religious icons meet elements of nature and political symbols in graphic compositions, marked by colored surfaces that preserve the artist's features. Canvas, paper, book covers, newspaper columns, building gables, fabrics and her own body, in performance, are some of the supports that the artist explores, seeking not to limit herself. In her creative process, the same image can transit through different media to acquire new material properties and meanings. As they spread, these images re-establish the Brazilian imagination based on the idea of syncretism.
Aline’s work often goes beyond traditional art spaces to find audiences in different contexts. This encounter is fundamental to the artist’s practice, as she investigates themes related to the sociocultural formation of Brazil, especially the violent encounter between Europeans and Africans. Syncretism emerges as an approach to the effects of miscegenation, permeating the artist’s work with common visual elements, but with different meanings for Christianity and Afro-diasporic religions. Spirituality is present even in elements of nature, whose ritual importance, such as healing and food, is based on ancestral knowledge.
In addition to her artistic practice, since 2020, Aline Bispo has been the curator of the Ibirapitanga Institute, dedicated to the defense of freedoms and democratic practices in Brazil. Her first solo exhibition, "Rustic Medicine: Paintings by Aline Bispo", took place at the Luis Maluf Gallery, in São Paulo, Brazil (2021). She has participated in several group exhibitions, including: "Of the Brazils: Art and Black Thought", at Sesc Belenzinho, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); "Mothers - In the Imagination of Art", at the Emanoel Araújo Afro Brazil Museum, in São Paulo, Brazil (2023); "Women Who Changed 200 Years", at Caixa Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2022); "Inspired Looks Occupation: Raquel Trindade, Queen Kambinda", at Sesc 24 de Maio, in São Paulo, Brazil (2021); and "I Have My Eyes Open, I Can't Go Back Anymore", at Adelina Cultural, in São Paulo, Brazil (2019). Her work is part of the collections of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MACRS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a space that is preparing to host the artist's first institutional exhibition in November 2023.
Representative galleries
Luis Maluf Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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"A linha dá o ponto, a linha dá o caminho" | 2024 | MACRS, Porto Alegre, RS
