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Encounter between Image and Latin American Literature

Art translating the content of a Latin American writer’s literary work into image: this was the proposal of the exhibition, where each of the 43 artists was inspired by a literary work to create in different techniques: watercolor, oil, sculpture, design, installation, engraving or photograph. They are excerpts from texts by well known writers, such as Pablo Neruda, Clarice Lispector and Guimarães Rosa, but there was also room for more contemporary ones.

Curated by the plastic artist Altina Felício, the exhibition wanted to prove the old aphorism that "the artist makes the invisible visible". "It reveals," said the curator, "the complicity that exists between literature and image, opening a magical door for both readers and potential artists."

Presented works:
4 monotypes (several sizes) that dialogue with the book "Tu não te moves de ti", by the writer Hilda Hilst:

“So few are the ones who stop at the root, the look full of vigorous emotion, I am alive and that is why the chest undoes itself, contemplating, the heart contemplates the world and absorbs matter from the infinite, contemplating I am a single and solitary sigh. However, the indescribable and unique being of the other adds to me, a powerful contour, another vastness of bodies, freshness and suffering, diving into the breath of everything I contemplate, I am me-your-body there, thrown to the stars, I am in the infinite, I am in everything because my heart-thought exists in tumult, amazement, pity, knows you, contemplates you.â€

HILDA HILST

"My art talks about the feminine universe, about my dreams as a child, about the curious look kept in my memory, about the life in the countryside and the smell of wet soil, about the joy of living. I talk about the moments of loneliness, about looking at the immensity of the universe and beyond. I talk about the lived moments, about the non-lived ones, about the plots of the world, about the human being. Creating, for me, it's a necessity."