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Oct 2021: Art by Thatiana Cardoso words by Lisa DeSiro
Art by Thatiana Cardoso
The images show the artist´s intentionality of constructing images that confuse the visual perception of the viewer. In the images, household items suggest parts of the human body. For the artist, object and human are in symbolic equivalence. Her photographic work aims to problematise the object as a living entity and investigate the way in which the viewer’s organism responds to these images.
Since 2013, I have explored the tension between strangeness and familiarity of everyday objects through photography, video, performance, and drawing. I investigate the approximations between the body and domestic utensils, showing the similarity with the human body. In my artwork, objects breath, pulsate, and are tortured. The process of torturing household items speaks of veiled, symbolic violence in relation to women. My early research focused on some of the unusual aspects of the living objects, and on the intentionality of constructing images that confuse the visual perception of the viewer. I investigate deception as a poetic resource to create images that ask the viewer to be part of this aesthetic experience.
Hesitações, 2021 from Thatiana Cardoso on Vimeo.
Words by Lisa DeSiro
Hooded
At the top step above the family room my mother appears, floating in mid-air, as if seated on an invisible chair. What she’s telling me is important. But her head is covered by a dark cloth, her face hidden. Please take that off, it’s distracting. No. She doesn’t have permission.
More about Lisa:
Lisa DeSiro is the author of Simple as a Sonnet (Kelsay Books, 2021), Labor (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017). Her poetry has been widely published in anthologies and journals, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and set to music by several composers. Lisa is also an accomplished pianist and founder/host of the Solidarity Salon performance series. Read more about her at thepoetpianist.com.
