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Nonfiction: Flores [Flowers], 2023

Spray paint and enamel paint on glass

Livraria Gato sem Rabo, São Paulo.

For NONFICTION, a hired letterer, Danise Moraes, painted words at the windows of a bookstore in downtown Sao Paulo, using three-dimensional effects mimicking neon signs. FLORES refers to traditional florist signs - which, in turn, mimic hand-written words. Depicting a lit neon, the painting suggested what its title denied, a fiction: changing the shop's field of activity.