MUCKI’S HYBRID WORK AT GALATEA
The first major exhibition of Mucki’s beadwork is being held at Galatea Gallery in São Paulo and will be on display until January 16, 2025. After decades of working with fabrics, the artist now presents a significant collection of works created with the collaboration of a collective of women embroiderers from Ilhéus and Rio de Janeiro.
“Just as the great poet from Pernambuco wrote, Mucki’s work is made of forest: contorted, shaken, agitated, with a lot to say. This is what is proposed by the interwoven threads, the diffuse lines, all embroidered on canvas, like a painting—a painting made without paint, but with a material that touches the Brazilian soul: miçangas (beads)”, said curator and editor Leonel Kaz about the exhibition.
The artist has explained that it is the embroiderers who give the final shape to the pieces and with whom she shares the results: “Embroidery has always made my eyes sparkle and made it possible to do what I do today, which I call ‘painting with beads’. These are works that generate jobs for men and women artisans, partners in making my imagination real. It's very slow work; it was they, the embroiderers, who taught me what it means to be rigorous, patient and calm”.
Mucki gradually abandoned the use of fabric cutouts and began to cover her canvases entirely with beads. Initially, she relied on colors available on the market, but today she commissions original color palettes from suppliers, which are exclusive to her works.
According to Kaz, with her beadwork, the artist creates a new and unique form: “After all, isn’t the artist’s job to create something extraordinary to add to the world what has not yet been seen? This is what she achieves with her embroidered canvases, in which invisible threads hold beads that make a palette of colors bloom before our eyes. Mucki’s work resonates with what the forest has to say”.
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
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Installation view Mucki: painting with beads. Courtesy of Galatea
Mucki Botkay: janelas imaginárias. Solo exhibition.
Until January 16, 2025.
Galatea Salvador. R. Chile, 22. Salvador, BA, Brazil
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