Pintura de parede, 2013-2025
The works in the series Pintura de parede [Wall Painting], which began in 2013, underwent a sort of taxonomy on a dissection table. Once dissected, the worn sandpaper used in the renovation of my home and studio – located in the same apartment in downtown São Paulo –, which constitute these works, generated another part of the series, entitled Wall Painting [scraps], produced between 2020 and 2021, with the frayed scraps of these leftover sandpaper. Now, between 2024 and 2025, I decided to produce larger, new paintings, formed by two parts and composed of 128 scraps each.
In the case of the series Wall Painting [scraps] and [little scraps], the movement and gesture reflect a portion of sandpaper, like a portion of fabric that was cut from a piece to make a patchwork quilt, emphasizing a certain organic geometry of a flayed patchwork, through its pinkish and reddish tones in “live flesh”.
In this window of reverse prospecting, in this reversed archaeological niche, these wall paintings – constructed by a gesture whose addition occurs through removal, through the friction of their abrasive surfaces against the plane of the wall – can also appear as wounds in the architectural body.
Thiago Honório, March 2025.
Work Details
From the Wall Painting series [scraps], 2013-2025
128 sandpaper scraps used to paint the walls of the residence and studio of the artist
109 x 178 cm [diptych]
photo: Estúdio em Obra