Maria Nepomuceno
HAMMOCKNET
Art Basel 41 – Art Statements
Hall 1.0, booth S 14
“The poetic analogy between the umbilical cord and the rope as a tool of resistance made me think of it’s whole as linking the present, the past and the future. Thereafter I adopted the rope as one of the principle materials of my work. My experience of giving birth led to the observation of the pulse of life as an alternation of flux and retention. From this point, it was essential that created forms expressed the organicness present in nature. Volumes and empty spaces, beginning from the line and always in a spiral, create a movement which is suggested by the dynamic of the material itself. Nature moves in circles and infinitely transforms itself in cycles, assuming the same form within uncountable bodies of the universe, from macro to micro organisms. This is reflected in the work as profound and incorporeal spaces that suggest and express feelings. The beads (spheres) emerge in the work as one more element related to body and nature. They offer me the possibility to construct volumes starting from not only the line, but the point. Penetrable points of colour. Fertile points that multiply themselves infinitely.”
Maria Nepomuceno – BASEL 2010
HAMMOCKNET
The work Maria Nepomuceno is presenting in Art Basel is about the cycle of BIRTH, LIFE and DEATH.
The three hammocks connected create a circuit of alternating forces of relaxation and tension that circulate infinitely. Physically hung, the hammocks are a whole that suspend the temporal hierarchy between these 3 moments.
At the same time, they are connected to the ground through an umbilical cord that becomes magma, volcanoes, plants and lakes of liquid substances, transporting us to a landscape of the beginning of life.
Maria Nepomuceno’s work is focused on sculpture. Beyond the beads and ropes that were already described, we find in her work braided straw, fabric, ceramics, and other materials. In 2006 and 2009, she had solo exhibitions at A GENTIL CARIOCA gallery, and in 2010 at Victoria Miro Galllery, London. In 2010 she had her first solo exhibition in a museum, on MAGASIN 3 in Stockholm.
