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Texto [2nd act], 2020-2023

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                 In the main room of the Morumbi Chapel / City Museum, the viewer comes across Texto [Text, 2nd act]. It is a work made up of a weave of natural cotton branches that imaginatively crosses the altar wall, “continuing” planted in a small part of the garden behind the Chapel, in a rectangular area close to that wall. This part of the work present in the external area, the cotton being collected by Japanese immigrant florists in the winter of 2023, is transplanted from a cotton field and, to this end, this small piece of soil is treated, cared for and watered.

                Texto relates to the idea of weaving, fabric and suspended narratives. It evokes both the processional carpets made from natural sawdust dyed in the Holy Week and Corpus Christi processions, a kind of cloud carpet made of cotton branches, as well as a cotton field. The work is also related to the rammed earth walls, made of “live flesh” earth, of the Morumbi Chapel. Life and death, weight and lightness, inside and outside, gravity and suspension in some way are elements that appear in this field-plantation-harvest-carpet that constitute the arrangement. Texto also combines the encounter of distinct temporalities: the arrangement of still life cotton branches inside the chapel and the still life itself – living nature in the small transplanted planted area – outside, in the garden.

Thiago Honório, August 2023.

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