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Work as the desired object
[…] I like that work realizes the desire.
I like to see my desires be realized,
to know that some others too realize their desires(1)
Exactly forty years ago, the work of José Leonilson (Brazil, 1957-1993) was exhibited in Paris for the first time(2). The artworks of this major artist in Brazilian history have only been shown a few times in France since then.
In February 2017, at 680 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I walked for the first time through an exhibition of Leonilson. Leonilson paints, embroiders, draws, and writes. He employs a narrative poetry, some very matte haiku, that is both verbal and punctuated by pictogram-like drawings. A vocabulary at once autobiographical and enigmatic, focused on raw emotions and introspective reflections shaped by intimate experiences. It is a political reading of the history of bodies converging at a moment when interpersonal relationsh…
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Work as the desired object
[…] I like that work realizes the desire.
I like to see my desires be realized,
to know that some others too realize their desires(1)
Exactly forty years ago, the work of José Leonilson (Brazil, 1957-1993) was exhibited in Paris for the first time(2). The artworks of this major artist in Brazilian history have only been shown a few times in France since then.
In February 2017, at 680 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I walked for the first time through an exhibition of Leonilson. Leonilson paints, embroiders, draws, and writes. He employs a narrative poetry, some very matte haiku, that is both verbal and punctuated by pictogram-like drawings. A vocabulary at once autobiographical and enigmatic, focused on raw emotions and introspective reflections shaped by intimate experiences. It is a political reading of the history of bodies converging at a moment when interpersonal relationsh…
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