ANA DIAS BATISTA

In reverse, 2018

Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo


Starting from the typical organizational solutions in carpet shops, the artist makes use of elements like rugs, carpeting, nylon and silk cord, piled up, rolled up and leaning on walls or laying on moldings and ceilings.

Just a few moves and the works overturn these elements sorting them out from their usual destinations and producing new associations: the silk cord forms letters, rolled up rugs become huge straws, linings imitate a large TV screen and clipped carpets make, in negative, piles of rugs displayed around. A catalogue of samples completes the settings, articulating some of the narratives built in other works.

  • Overview. On the floor, "Carpeting"; at the walls "Keep Watching" (left) and "Hard Drinkers" (right)

  • "Carpeting", piled up carpets with cutouts in the shapes of rugs

  • "Carpeting"

  • "Carpeting", piled up carpets with cutouts in the shapes of rugs

  • "Keep Watching", fabric catalogue and carpet samples

  • "Hard Drinkers", a pair of rugs with diagonal stripes, rolled up backwards

  • "Soft Talk", carpet lining attached to a preexistent lowered plaster ceiling, emulating a tv screen in which a dialogue can be read

  • "That's all, I said. He said the same thing in a different intonation."

  • "Soft Talk"

  • "Bowing", silk cord installed at the gallery's entrance corridor, forming the sentence "Visit often"