Home Series
Testimony for the catalog Art and New Media (FAAP), by Leticia Parente
Proposal for serialization of works , by Letícia Parente (text excerpt Letícia Parente by Letícia Parente)
Postal art: video production , report by Letícia Parente
photocopy & mail art
Testimony (?) for the Arte e Novos Meios Multimeiros exhibition catalog, FAAP
by Letícia Parente
I have come to articulate “The proposal of Home/House” (xerox serie) the subject Home/House, but it depended on the passing within the space, I even articulated it in Fortaleza and at MAC-USP.
… I started xerox work in 74, and sporadically I keep doing it, however it is no longer the heart of the matter.
… It’s a house in it’s floor plan, a house cut out in 3, for 3 geographical situations, 3 states : Bahia, Ceará and Rio, my residencies.
Another important thing about this piece, is always the introduction of a technology element of our time, that I add in order to make a contrast with a more poetical language : So this floor plan, of a typical BNH house, with the letraset signs, for instance, is an arrow in a commonplace of indications and back&forth, turns in the entrance and in the place of the conversasion they have this hands, in letraset, desired dialogues and things of the sort.
In the bedroomthere a seven beds in letraset, seven alternatives the person can choose from… In mis of sens, inocence, and stereotyped signs- codified rituals…