Simone Cupello

Niterói, 1962. Lives in Rio de Janeiro

The thought matrix behind Simone Cupello’s work hinges upon juxtaposed, clashing and intersecting artistic languages. A gatherer of discarded personal images, the artist makes installations and organic forms that draw upon these archives stripped of their original function as auxiliary memory.

Sem título [Untitled] is a case in point: a stone sculpted out of compressed photos. Like nature’s own, the time-pressed remains of organic sediments, Cupello’s stones are made of material that has literally had the life squashed out of it, acquiring new form through crushed abundance. At the Triennial, the artist also presents Sem título (varais) [Untitled (washing lines)], an installation composed of hundreds of juxtaposed photos hanging from steel-wire washing lines, forming a volume that floats in the exhibition space.

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