Letícia Parente : arqueologia do cotidiano : objetos de uso
Letícia Parente (Artist), André Parente (Editor, Compiler), Katia Maciel (Editor, Compiler), Oi Futuro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Fortaleza, Brazil)
Retrospective that highlights the valuable legacy of Letícia Parente (b. Brazil 1930 - 1991), one of the pioneers of Brazilian video and mail art along with Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Andrade and Fernando Cocchiarale. While Parente is better known for her video art, however this art genre was not her most important means of expression. She started in art when she was already 40 (1971) and experimented with photography, audio-visual (projection of slides with sound), cinema, mail art, xerox, and installations. This exhibition documents a compilation of experimental audiovisuals (short videos and intimate narratives produced in her own home) that were thought to be lost. In the 1970's Parente would send the master recordings of her videos to various exhibitions, as copy making was not available at the time. "Much of what was produced in Media Art in Brazil during the 1970's has been lost. Most of the xerox and mail art works as well as video and video text works have been lost, whether because they were fragile material or due to the obsolescence of equipment or unskillfulness of art institutions in Brazil (which include museums, art collectors and artists) with respect to archive. More than one third of Leticia's videos have been lost, as she used to send her own matrixes to the exhibitions, since it was impossible to make copies of her work at the time" --Page 28
Print Book, Portuguese, 2011
1a edição
+2 Editora, Rio de Janeiro, 2011