On simplicity and patience

Solange Pessoa creates video art, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures. Since the 1980s, she has incorporated organic materials into her sometimes enigmatic work, revealing processes of change and thus creating metaphors about life and death. Be it a video showing the melting and hardening of bronze, thus elevating a classic sculpture-making process to a work of art itself. Or jute bags filled with plants, bones, flowers, and historical drawings or photographs that form a shared archive of nature and culture. The Brazilian Pessoa, who considers herself close to Arte Povera, places the rhythm of nature, mindfulness and patience in the focus of her work. The Kunsthaus Bregenz now presents Pessoa's comprehensive œuvre in the exhibition of the same name. The exhibition will be open from November 11, 2023 to February 4, 2024. An Artist Talk with the artist will take place in English on November 11 at 4 pm.

A special highlight is the installation called Ó Ó Ó Ó. Pessoa, born in 1961, has been working on it since 2012, and now it can be seen for the first time in Bregenz as a completed work of art. »I see in my work a kind of return to the amorphous, to the gravity of dream-like material elements and to a primitive imaginary nature that refers to animism, cosmogenies, temporal textures and psychic energy connections«, the artist explains. The installation can be found on the second floor next to numerous bronze sculptures.