This minimalist artwork by Merryn Butler features a stark black and white composition with a grid of diagonal lines creating a sense of depth and motion. The repetitive pattern evokes a feeling of rhythm and visual harmony, inviting the viewer to consider the interplay of light and shadow. The artist's employment of bold, graphic lines and a restrained color palette reflects a modernist aesthetic, suggesting an exploration of the fundamental elements of design. This abstract piece likely aims to provoke contemplation on the nature of perception and the power of simplicity in visual art. ...
A painter, weaver, ceramist, and mother of four children. She was
born during a period of traumatic change for her people, the Awaete, during what amounts to an ethnocide against the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Despite growing up in a traditional family, it was her mother-in-law that awakened in her the importance of strengthening and learning their ancestral culture, whose practices and knowledge must be passed from generation to generation. In this exhibition, the artist, in partnership with the cultural producer and designer Carla Romano, seeks to look beyond the reproduction on canvas of graphic patterns that were once corporal, deepening the theme "Body" to enter further into layers of interpretation, signs and meaning, to consider the past, present and future of the sacred geometry of connection with the spirits of the Awaete people.
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