From Water, From Stone: Isaura Pena

This exhibition was born from Fatima Pinto Coelho's invitation for Isaura Pena to create a visual essay based on her book Paralelo 20, which will be launched at Livraria da Rua, Belo Horizonte.

ABOUT VISUAL ESSAYS

I gave the manuscript of this book to my friend and artist Isaura Pena so that she could visually read the parallels contained in these two river courses.

Isaura chose two elements of nature: water and stone, respectively Pinto Coelho and Motta.

It is by following the current of the water, its diversions, tributaries, banks and mouths, that we will step on the bottom, on the stone. We will feel its relief, how hard it is. Seen from another angle, it presents the shine of gravel gold, the red of the sought-after and devastated ore. Hematites.

Several faces of the same stone.

Large, ancient blocks, which cause the split that we do not want to keep in memory, whose memory, however, persists in the void that history has left.

Fatima Pinto Coelho

From the book Paralelo 20. Belo Horizonte: Editora Migulim, 2024. p.23