Mil Palavras features more than 30 new works by Leya Mira Brander which, as is usual in the artist’s oeuvre, create narratives based on their combinations. In one of her first prints – a periodic table of chemical elements – Brander already pointed to this procedure, which has become recurrent in her work, namely, the combination of elements (individual prints), each with unique elements, grouped linearly on the wall or in showcases (27th Bienal de São Paulo, 2008) in such a way as to create narratives that reveal Brander’s imaginary universe and make her a sort of storyteller.
In Mil Palavras, however, Brander combines depth and perspective with bidimensional prints, cutting and overlaying a number of them to construct sculptures that arise in the form of boxes, books, or simply objects and drawings suspended in the air. Color is another new element that the artist has added to this newest series, by way of the gold leaf that Brander uses to highlight parts of the drawings and to provide a rhythm to her stories. The appropriation of images from the history of art, a tool that brander has used in previous works, reappears as well in Mil Palavras, in drawings that refer to the works of Degas, Di Cirico, Bosh, Edward Maybridge and Egon Schiele.
Mil Palavras features more than 30 new works by Leya Mira Brander which, as is usual in the artist’s oeuvre, create narratives based on their combinations. In one of her first prints – a periodic table of chemical elements – Brander already pointed to this procedure, which has become recurrent in her work, namely, the combination of elements (individual prints), each with unique elements, grouped linearly on the wall or in showcases (27th Bienal de São Paulo, 2008) in such a way as to create narratives that reveal Brander’s imaginary universe and make her a sort of storyteller.
In Mil Palavras, however, Brander combines depth and perspective with bidimensional prints, cutting and overlaying a number of them to construct sculptures that arise in the form of boxes, books, or simply objects and drawings suspended in the air. Color is another new element that the artist has added to this newest series, by way of the gold leaf that Brander uses to highlight parts of the drawings and to provide a rhythm to her stories. The appropriation of images from the history of art, a tool that brander has used in previous works, reappears as well in Mil Palavras, in drawings that refer to the works of Degas, Di Cirico, Bosh, Edward Maybridge and Egon Schiele.
