The first English-language monograph on seminal Brazilian artist Solange
Pessoa (born 1961), this substantial volume is also the artist's most
comprehensive to date. Pessoa's sculptural work, which often mobilizes
materials like human hair, leather, wax and animal blood, evokes issues
related to human and animal bodies, vacillates between beauty and
abjection and forges formal connections between indigenous Brazilian
traditions and international postminimal art.
Surveying work from throughout Pessoa's career, from her beginnings in
the late 1980s through to the present, with selections from the artist's
sketchbooks and archives, this volume argues for Pessoa's unique
contribution to Brazilian art. Including texts by international scholars
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira and Alex Bacon, as well
as an interview with Pessoa by Liz Munsell, Solange Pessoa introduces
English-language readers to the artist's compelling body of work from
the past three decades.