Model 1636814 for a Portrait, 2019 - 2020
Found glass, carbon paper from duplicate chequebook, tape, wall drawings
3 x (14 X 8, 5 cm) and 2 x (14 X 8, 5 cm)
While digging around in some old boxes, among letters, faded photographs and old books I found a piece of glass which had slipped away from a small picture frame. It was the ability of the glass surface to subtly retain the marks of the passage of time that caught my attention: in particular, the way in which these marks made visible the absence of the portrait itself fascinated me.
Later, by chance, I realised that the format of the small piece of glass was very much the same as an old chequebook which for years I have kept at home on my studio shelf. When I was a child, I used to steal the carbon papers from my father's receipt books and chequebooks. More than the possibility of duplicating the image, what I really enjoyed was the negative drawing left on the carbon paper after tracing the image. I always love the blackness of the carbon paper, and in this case, I especially like the fact that each carbon paper is numbered.
Now, when the glass is placed over the black carbon paper and set up vertically, taped to the gallery wall (or later on, displayed horizontally, combined with a number of other elements (Portraits of Aunt Gininha, 2018)), it evokes yet other meanings.
Each iteration is about a new possibility of reconfiguration, since at any time I feel these two elements might become part of another work.