BIO

Patricia Borges Brazilian photographer and multimedia artist, graduated in architecture, photography, cinematography and screenplay. Awarded at Florence and Rome biennials. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions around the world and it is part of major private collections. From 2018, she began using photographs as a material for composing installations and three-dimensional art objects.

MEDEA (photo-object)

MEDEA (2019)

Photographic prints on tracing paper, glass, metal and natural hair

7 x 7 x 126 cm / 3 x 3 x 49 in

For MEDEA I photographed the bars, doors and gates that hold us at home. More than the official discourse of protecting us from the evil that lives outside, these culturally accepted elements often confine us without choice in the domestic environment as if it were always safe.

The photographs were printed on delicate tracing paper and wrapped around a glass tube, from which the female hair comes. The interior that no one sees. A metal clamp that has only fit for closure, holds the assembly, compresses and tests the fragility of the glass that resists in the crumb.