The Armory Show: Nova Iorque

Tatiana Blass's artistic practice includes painting, video, sculpture, and installation. Her work often draws on theater, literature, and music. Her work probes the limits of visual and symbolic language, exposing the gaps, absences, and erosion inherent in narratives shaped by conventional discourse and reasoning. Embracing notions of lack and unpredictability, Blass strips objects and real elements of their functionality, materiality, and integrity. By silencing musical instruments, melting wax sculptures, and sealing or corroding objects, Blass gradually dissolves and reconfigures modes of existence in space and time.

The artist, who has lived for the past decade in Minas Gerais, Brazil's largest mining state, has witnessed firsthand the profound impacts of mining.
The collapse of two tailings dams in 2015 and 2019 were among the most devastating environmental disasters of the century, drawing international attention. In response to the destruction caused by extractive mining processes, Blass transforms open-pit crater representations into theater stage arenas. The monumental scale of the excavations and the immense surrounding landscape are reduced to a human scale by the heavy machinery. By incorporating micro and macro dimensions within a single representation, Blass aims to humanize the vast socio-political, economic, and environmental forces and bridge them with individual subjectivities and interpersonal relationships.