CAMPO Benefit Auction 2023

Artwork Description
The artwork 'Penca' consists of approximately 8 pairs of worn rubber gloves, which are tied together with a yellow or green nylon tie wrap. Each set of gloves forms a 'Penca'.
Pencas are made with discarded work gloves, which keep the marks of theirs wear and the materials that react with their colored surface. They are quasimetaphors of the worker, the fragile part of the production chain who can nevertheless emerge as a seductive and ambiguous body, moving in a complex way between the collective an the individual, the singular and the plural.

Bio
Thiago Honório (1979, Carmo do Paranaíba, Minas Gerais)
Thiago Honório’s practice is part of an interdisciplinary matrix. It is fueled by a transit between the ordinary and the extraordinary, by the experience between the private and the public spheres, from different kinds of knowledge and exchanges, based on procedures such as displacements, cuts and assemblies.

Main solo and group exhibitions: The Red Studio (ISCP, NY, 2018/2019) stands out; Solo (Galeria Luisa Strina, SP, 2017); Trabalho (MASP, SP, 2016); Boate azul (in collaboration with Pedro Vieira, Pampulha Art Museum, MG, 2016); Títulos (Paço das Artes, 2015). He is the author of the books DULCINÉIA (in collaboration with the collective Dulcinéia Catadora, 1st edition 2017, 2nd edition 2018); Augusta (Ikrek, 2017) and {[()]} (Ikrek, 2016). In 2018 he received the “Director’s Circle” award from the International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP in New York, where he developed within an artistic residency the works The Red Studio I (2014/2018) and The Red Studio II (2014/2019); and in 2019 he was invited to participate in the artistic residency CAMPO AIR in Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay, where he realized the works Luzia (2018/2019) and Marcador (2006/2019). Since 2006, he has been a professor in the Visual Arts (undergraduate) and Contemporary Artistic (postgraduate) courses at FAAP University, São Paulo, Brazil. He is represented by Galería Luisa Strina.

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