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ArchiveBorn 1959 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
During nearly ten years, Brígida Baltar engaged in small poetic actions of gathering household substances such as rain drops that percolate through subtle cracks in roofs, or the reddish-brown dust of clay bricks used for walls of the house in which she lived and worked. At times, these substances were offered to her by chance time, at times she actively searched for them. Devoid of a particular objective, these gestures potentially conveyed in various media (sculpture, drawing, video, photography) the symbolical utterance of something that is viewed, by and large, as a lifeless, amorphous substance. (...)
In 2005, before moving from her house, the artist gathered a large amount of the fine dust from the hard clay bricks. She used this substance in other works to prolong the duration of a time past and the dimension of a space that first and foremost was a shelter. (Moacir dos Anjos)
 Brígida Baltar Secret passage - Drawing with brick dust and cut paper mask, Variable dimensions, 2007. |
