O CCBB BH gets the exposure "Marlene Barros: Weaving the Feminine featuring works in sculpture, crochet, and embroidery by the artist from Maranhão. Marlene BarrosThe exhibition, curated by Betânia Pinheiro, proposes a reflection on the female body, the historical devaluation of women, and the invisibility of their work in the field of art. It transforms the intimate act of sewing into a public narrative of resistance, belonging, and reinvention, turning needle and thread into instruments of denunciation, memory, and symbolic elaboration.
The exhibition features installations such as “I Have Your Face,” with 49 women's faces that exchange stitched-together eyes and mouths, exploring the tension between identity and otherness; “Black Box,” which constructs an expanded self-portrait from photographs, textile interventions, and writings; “I Sew Because It's Torn,” which presents a jacket whose reverse side reveals embroidered organs that symbolize feelings and trigger the idea of repair; “Between Us,” which delves into crocheted objects to problematize tasks that are naturalized within the domestic sphere; and “Whoever Gave Birth, Let Them Take Care of Them,” which questions the almost exclusive attribution of childcare to women. The exhibition layout, coordinated by Fábio Nunes, with executive production by Júlia Martins, proposes a non-chronological trajectory, allowing the public to construct their own experience between matter, gesture, and memory.
With over four decades of experience, Marlene Barros has established herself as a leading figure in the Maranhão art scene, connecting production, training, and cultural networks through the Marlene Barros Atelier and the ZBM Collective Cultural Center. The exhibition originates from research developed during her Master's degree in Contemporary Art at the University of Aveiro, where she proposed symbolically stitching together a ruined house on the Santiago campus in Portugal, in a gesture of mending fissures of time. The house, transformed into a metaphor for the body, allowed her to expand her reflection to the feminine universe in its social, political, and affective dimensions, understanding weaving as a metaphor for bonds, memory, and the flow of life.
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Exhibition Marlene Barros: Weaving the Feminine
From March 04 to June 01
Wednesday to Monday, from 10:22 to XNUMX:XNUMX
