Vitrine Planta

Vitrine Planta is a small space located in downtown São Paulo, Brazil. It is one of the ten display windows at the Galeria das Artes, near the Mario de Andrade Library. At the invitation of the artist Renata Cruz, I presented the work I created from conversations with people in public squares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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For those who can still eat in Brazil, public squares are refuge and a meeting place during lunchtime. Through dialogue with randomg people in these locations, we used food boxes as a starting point, turning them into surfaces for personal notes. "From the tea box, Maristela was reminded of a natural recipe for curing colds with herbs from her homeland. Gilson, on the other hand, remembered a cocoa plantation near his childhood home when he saw the shape of the cocoa in chocolate packaging. A coffee box brought back memories of Claudia's grandfather's house, leading to the epiphany that "until today, that's the place that feels like home".

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The conversation continued on the outside walls of the gallery through postering where the people of São Paulo continue to dialogue with shared emotions.

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This work is part of a series that investigates the extent to which our desires are contained in a package.