The Brazilian artist Sallisa Rosa has created a brand new large-scale ceramic set up, Topography of Reminiscence (2023), which can go on view later this autumn on the Collins Park Rotunda close to the Bass Museum in Miami Seaside (5-17 December), coinciding with Artwork Basel Miami Seaside.
The set up consists of greater than 70 handmade objects—created with clay collected from Brazil’s Itaboraí area close to Rio de Janeiro—a few of which shall be suspended within the air whereas others rise from the bottom in stalagmite vogue. An immersive setting additionally utilizing amber mild and comfortable mist, the undertaking’s overarching theme is private and collective reminiscence, impressed by the artist’s expertise (and people of many different Brazilians) of trying to reconstruct her ancestry. The set up attracts a connection between erosion in each the pure world and in reminiscence, and the collected clay represents the symbolic storing of reminiscence.
“Topography of Reminiscence marks the primary time I’ve labored with ceramics at such scale,” Rosa stated in an announcement. “Reminiscence offers us an thought of who we’re—and picked up clay is a cloth that prompts reminiscence. I hope the fee shall be a chance for audiences to mirror on their very own recollections and private histories.”
Rosa’s observe incorporates images, video, efficiency and set up, drawing on her Indigenous heritage in exploring the connections between people and nature and sometimes together with clay.
Sallisa Rosa, set up view of Supernova at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2021) Photograph: Fábio Souza
Topography of Reminiscence, Rosa’s first solo undertaking within the US, was commissioned by Audemars Piguet Up to date (working intently with the impartial curator Thiago de Paula Souza) and can journey to Brazil’s Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the place it is going to be on show on the new Pina Contemporânea wing subsequent yr (16 March-28 July 2024).
The Brazilian gallery A Gentil Carioca will host an exhibition of Rosa’s work in November. Her artwork may also be on view on the gallery’s stand at Artwork Basel Miami Seaside (8-10 December).