Cinthia Marcelle

The works that comprise her most recent exhibition at Vermelho Gallery were all produced after the economic crisis that shook the world three years ago. While in her installation for the latest Sao Paulo Biennial the artist proposed a rigorous analysis of a currently archaic educational system through a black painting hanging on mountains of white chalk dust, she now focuses on a change in value systems. One of the characters she creates in her allegory, the collector, clings to his case as he walks through a neutral environment, devoid of any references, as if it were the lunar surface. In the apocalyptic fable Marcelle constructs, art too seems to go through a reassessment, as if the artist inquired what the use of aesthetics is in a world made of dust. The answer seems to be waiting at the gallery door, where Marcelle has left a bucket, full of white ink, an instrument for whoever wants to erase the past and the present, or prepare the terrain for the uncertain future.