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"Abyss" Rita Vidal @ Hello.Again
04/09 - 17/12/16

In September Pivô opens Rita Vidal’s new project “Abyss”. The show is a part of Hello.Again program, that commissions new work from emerging artists at Pivô’s entrance.”Abyss” was chosen through an open call amidst 80 proposals by a jury formed by the curators Douglas de Freitas and Sabrina Moura and the artist Lucas Simões.

Using her expertise in fashion design, especially in moulage making, Rita Vidal creates a taylor-made garment for this space. For this purpose, Vidal chose to use industrial felt, a very thick fabric used in house building and construction sites.

The artist have been working with this kind of felt for few years but recently she came across a new color of the matter: a matte and deep black. This recent discovery in such a familiar practice was the origin of the new project. “Abyss” is her first large scale work and also the first time the artist works site-specifically.  

Vidal handles the fabric throughout the space, wrapping it’s modern curves, erasing amendments and footholds until finally converting it all into a kind of black hole. The viewer’s encounter with the work is tactile as well as visual. There are no objects on display or any hierarchy between the work and the observer.

Seeing from the street the environment may seem empty or under installation, but once the audience comes inside the encounter with the material alters the perception of the room. The soft texture and the difference in temperature provoked by the large amount of wool makes one aware of it’s presence, and the color of the felt gives the space a kind of solemnity. Despise of the large amount of material used by the artist, the installation is subtle. It is a quiet invitation to experience this very live space through new parameters.

 

About Rita Vidal

Rita Vidal (b. 1980, Brazil) is based in São Paulo. A graduate in pattern cutting in Fashion Design, she investigates disused sewing and embroidery techniques in order to create poetic narratives on different fabrics. Many hours of painstaking labour are dedicated into her work in order to shape something that mimics what would be the result of a slip or a small accident. Such process is akin to a crime investigation, whereby one devotes the same attention that a detective would, in reconstructing a trail or remains of a crime through a number of different pieces of evidence. The same happens with the industrial felt patterns (a prototyping material) tailored to the conception of unexpected bodies. In 2015 she was part of the group show “Até aqui tudo bem/So far so good,” at White Cube Gallery in São Paulo.

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