“2018 Nest Egg”
2018 Nest Egg
(SKU. 6613)
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Date
2017 -
Technique
photograph printed on Hahnemühle paper -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 44 x 32 x 4 cm -
Edition
3 (each). Series of 12 -
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"Pé de Meia 2018" is a series composed of twelve images. Each of them works independently and presents a photograph of a sock with the corresponding text written in black ink.
In the popular dictionary, the expression is used to define a financial reserve that an individual has accumulated over a given period. Each of the images represents a month of the year, hence the series of twelve. As a whole, it is therefore a year of “Pé de meia”, hence the launch in December. The socks belong to the collection of objects kept by the artist who transforms them and subverts their meaning through the use of language.
The edition is an extension of another recent work, Ganha Pão. In a humorous way, both are appropriations of ordinary objects combined with the use of words to create visual poems. There is a desire to discuss, through the aesthetic object, the question of the artist's survival and the ideological insertion of his production.
Biography
Maria Montero
Maria Montero is an artist, independent curator, executive producer specializing in exhibitions and gallery owner. She studied Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmith College in London (1998) and is currently studying Art: History, Criticism and Curatorship at PUC-SP.
She worked with Institutional Relations at Galeria Luciana Brito (2009-2010), was curator of the first version of "Red Bull House of Art" (2009) and coordinated the project Abotoados Pela Manga, alongside Franz Manata (2010). She was curator of “Viva Maria” at Galeria Luciana Brito, “Se disser que sou Pássaro” by Ana Mazzei at Galeria Jaqueline Martins and the group exhibition “O importante, minha filha, é nunca tirar a mão do barro” (The important thing, my daughter, is to never take your hand off the clay) at Galeria Carbono. And in January 2017 she held her first solo show at Sé called "Survival of Vagalumes".
She founded and manages Phosphorus, an independent space focused on experimental practices, with a focus on artistic residencies and process critique. Between 2011 and 2014, Phosphorus held exhibitions, residencies, workshops and special projects in partnership with galleries, collectors and artists. In 2012 and 2013, the space was supported by ProAC (a public notice to support independent spaces in the state of São Paulo). In 2014, she founded Sé, a gallery focused on artists with a solid track record who are beginning their relationship with the market through the gallery. The gallery seeks to provide critical support to the artists it represents by proposing exhibition projects that give visibility to more critical, conceptual and experimental thinking.
Representative galleries
Martins & Montero Gallery , Sao Paulo
