Samba em Paris
2022 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
70 x 50 cm
Laís Amaral
Laís Amaral abstract paintings dialogue with the feminine power. Just like the flow of a river, Laís produces her paintings as a flux that emerges from within, an inner force that relates to all the women in her life, family, and ones who know the medicinal powers of nature; who are part of this feminine force latent in the earth. In order to discover elements about herself, Laís Amaral understands painting as a gesture of leakage. The artist uses painting as a vehicle through which to explore possibilities from spiritual to ancestral aspects. In Samba em Paris , the artist understands mistakes as an exercise of letting go; through this, she created her scraping technique. Whenever she attempts something she doesn’t like, she overpaints the canvas in a different colour from what was there. By allowing herself to make mistakes, by allowing herself to experiment, Laís builds her vocabulary, escaping from rigid linearity and seeking to discover pleasure in disobeying and contradicting the traditional expectations of abstraction.
Laís Amaral is a self-taught artist who understands herself as an artist, while also part of the collective atelie Trovoa, co-founded by the artist and four other women. Dedicated to the production of black women and those who live on the margins of urban spaces, the collective emerged as a network to strengthen, motivate, and open new perspectives on contemporary art, both in terms of consumption, and in terms of being active in the production of content. Laís dedicates most of her time to painting, her practice explores possibilities towards the contemporary environmental collapse in what she calls desertification and “whitening” in territories across Brazil . Reflecting on the presence of her body in these spaces, Laís compares this desertification landscape as a subjective desert within herself.
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