Floral Shoppe
Sculpture with colorful cloths, yarn, and butterflies cut from magazine pages. Presented at the Espaço Das Artes, São Paulo, 2019
Something I noticed about Brazil was that it’s a place where the conception of physical beauty is very strong. I’ve always been fascinated by the aesthetics of physical beauty, thus my love/hate relationship with fashion magazines.
The butterflies made from pages from those magazines are seen sitting on the leafs and flowers of traditional Brazillian tablecloths. Cluttered together in such a colorful and oversaturated environment they create distorted human faces. I wanted to create something aesthetic but that manages to convey a sense of unease.
The title refers to Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus, which kickstarted the genre vaporwave, defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped samples of smooth jazz, elevator, R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s and 1990s. The surrounding subculture is sometimes associated with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and pop culture.
Sculpture with colorful cloths, yarn, and butterflies cut from magazine pages. Presented at the Espaço Das Artes, São Paulo, 2019
Something I noticed about Brazil was that it’s a place where the conception of physical beauty is very strong. I’ve always been fascinated by the aesthetics of physical beauty, thus my love/hate relationship with fashion magazines.
The butterflies made from pages from those magazines are seen sitting on the leafs and flowers of traditional Brazillian tablecloths. Cluttered together in such a colorful and oversaturated environment they create distorted human faces. I wanted to create something aesthetic but that manages to convey a sense of unease.
The title refers to Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus, which kickstarted the genre vaporwave, defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped samples of smooth jazz, elevator, R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s and 1990s. The surrounding subculture is sometimes associated with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and pop culture.
