A Childhood Story, 2016

Installation for Individual exhibition

A Childhood Story

at the DCConcept Gallery -SP - 2016

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collective exhibition

Program of  MARP Exhibitions - 2017

Ribeirao Preto SP

with the works Dama com Galo e Milhafre

Once upon a time, an artist has long wanted to draw birds. One autumn day, watching Leonardo da Vinci's stories, she discovered that he had written a book titled  Fables and Legends Her only childhood memory was a dream of birds. It was at this time that Rosilene Fontes began to tell  A childhood story, narratives in which fiction is mixed with personal memories.

In the artist's works, appropriation, collage, deconstruction and reconstruction are recurrent procedures. In his drawings, he uses collages made previously (with Leonardo's Damas) as a basis for observation. In addition to the addition actions, the deletion actions emerge as in  Kite, a drawing in which only the bird's head remains, drawing attention to the fact that the discussion about memory involves forgetting. Appropriation is also present in  Nest (installation produced from a nest found on the balcony of the artist's house) and in other object boxes such as  tree house  Nest house.

On the other hand, the series that lends its name to the exhibition includes object boxes built from the book  Fables and legends. Rosilene selects stories that most relate to her memory: Lark, Pavão, Cisne, Pelicano, Águia, for example. The artist reinvents her titles and contents, using them as supports to materialize other narratives, stitched together in other types of pages. In addition to the aforementioned legends, the artist also tells the story of Garça through a drawing-installation that expands her object boxes into the exhibition space.

A characteristic of fables and legends is that these narrative forms propose a moral or a teaching. Rosilene's collage-fables are fictitious spaces that provoke other readings. And, then, to finish this text, it can be said that in these image overlays, the artist proposes that the birds (or visitors to the exhibition) fly through other maps, other books and a (another) childhood story.

Ananda Carvalho

Curator and Art Critic