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roçabarroca, 2018-2020

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                 roçabarroca* takes the hallway of the building renovated in 1982 by Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) for the Museum of Modern Art (MAM São Paulo) like a throat. The work starts from the idea of dressing walls with soil, leaving them “raw”.

                 It is thus constituted by covering the two walls of the MAM São Paulo hallway with taipa and wattle — a Brazilian construction procedure used in the colonial period. This vernacular technique consists of interlacing vertical wooden slats or logs with horizontal bamboo branches or beams that are tied together with sisal or vine, creating a large woven structure which’s gaps and cracks are filled with clay. Among the practices of so-called “earth architecture” it is one of the most common, especially in rural areas.

                 This covering of the internal walls of this type of hallway-throat that begins at the Lina Bo Bardi Auditorium — the auditorium also serves as a place for speeches — and gives access to the water fountain, the restaurant and the large exhibition hall, will be made with soil and dry branches collected in Ibirapuera Park. There is an inversion when bringing to the epithelial surface of these walls, the insides, what would not be revealed and subjected to plastering, finishing and painting.

Thiago Honório, October 2018.



*The title roçabarroca comes from the book and poem “Roça barroca”, by poet and translator Josely Vianna Baptista (1957)

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