Tonico Lemos Auad
∗1968, Brasil
lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Tonico Lemos Auad’s (*1968, Brasil) varied practice investigates materiality, sensuality, process and how people negotiate the space around them. He was born in Belém, Brazil, in 1968 and now lives and works in London. Auad explores physical manifestations of belief, specifically looking at the personal or cultural significance afforded to objects in everyday life. Often encompassing notions of architecture and landscape, Auad’s unique way of working subverts traditional techniques associated with crafts such as embroidery, woodcarving and stonemasonry, just as in the works included in the Sala Trenker exhibition. His works are instantly appealing for their tactility and for the intense labour that is evidently involved in creating them. Close observation of the works is rewarded by finding intricate and delicate details. By going even one step further, one becomes aware of their poetic associations, that are further enhanced by the space they are placed in, and begins to divine the artist’s thought process, also hinted at through the use of materials. In recent years, different modes of textile production such as knitting, crochet, needle work and weaving have featured in Auad’s practice. His textiles are defined by the process of their making, slowly revealing each individual stitch, crocheted loop and interwoven thread. Auad’s pillars, presented at the Sala Trenker, with their subtle distinguishing features, e.g. black rings or frayed lace, and their recycled timber from historical buildings in London, are inspired by the famous garden of the renowned British director Derek Jarman near Dungeness, Kent (UK).
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