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Marlene Almeida (b. 1942, Brazil) presents Acute Earth, an exhibition exploring the elemental and symbolic power of the land through over fifty years of artistic practice. Almeida’s work merges art, ecology, and ancestral memory. Since the 1970s, she has gathered clays and plant-based binders from Brazil’s diverse geological regions, processing them into pigments that form the basis of her paintings, installations, and sculptures.
Her practice is meditative and tactile—grinding, drying, and tempering earths to build a palette she calls her “Museum of Brazilian Earths.” These pigments are not just materials but bearers of history and cultural memory. Almeida’s pieces foreground chromatic variation and surface texture, often engaging with philosophical and alchemical themes of transformation and impermanence. Titles like A Cor da Terra, Fruto da Terra, and Corpus Terrae reflect this conceptual grounding.…
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Marlene Almeida (b. 1942, Brazil) presents Acute Earth, an exhibition exploring the elemental and symbolic power of the land through over fifty years of artistic practice. Almeida’s work merges art, ecology, and ancestral memory. Since the 1970s, she has gathered clays and plant-based binders from Brazil’s diverse geological regions, processing them into pigments that form the basis of her paintings, installations, and sculptures.
Her practice is meditative and tactile—grinding, drying, and tempering earths to build a palette she calls her “Museum of Brazilian Earths.” These pigments are not just materials but bearers of history and cultural memory. Almeida’s pieces foreground chromatic variation and surface texture, often engaging with philosophical and alchemical themes of transformation and impermanence. Titles like A Cor da Terra, Fruto da Terra, and Corpus Terrae reflect this conceptual grounding.…
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