Luzia Simons, Stockage 200

Work details:
Lightjet print/Diasec, 40 × 30 cm

Edition of 25 exemplars
Numbered and signed on the back side, followed by an authenticity certificate

Price: € 300,00 + 16% VAT + package and shipping

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Courtesy: Luzia Simons
Concept/Realization: P-ARTE – T.A. Art Projects, Tereza de Arruda
Production: Studio Luzia Simons – Aldonso Palácio Neto, Julia Deimann; P-ARTE – T.A. Art Projects – Magdalena de Arruda Ilg, Daniel Jabra

P-ARTE and Luzia Simons // Campaign Guarani Kaiowá

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Luzia Simons is a Brazilian artist based in Berlin. Simons is known for her photographic work, as a pioneer creating images with unusual techniques, such as the tulip scannogramms of her highly acclaimed series “Stockage”. The formality of her works refers to the still life of the Flemish Baroque and is in intense dialogue with issues related to migration, cultural transfer and impermanence due to the tulip metaphor itself. The artist proposes a critical and historical perspective of the emblematic flower that, originating from the steppes of Kazakhstan, has become a symbol of Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, whose bulbs then reached Europe and became objects of speculation on the stock exchange in the 17th century and is nowadays seen as a typically Dutch product.

The artist focuses her study precisely on this nomadic and multicultural path. The representation of the flower as still life allows contemporary readings of cultural and socio-political diversity charged with autobiographical traits. Life and death are implicit in the ephemeral existence of the tulip, as well as in our reality. Recently various factors accelerate this process in an uncontrolled and inhumane manner.

For this reason, we P-ARTE, in cooperation with Studio Luzia Simons and in dialogue with the traditional councils of the Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous people (Aty Guasu, Kuñangue Aty Guasu e RAJ), launched this campaign. Our intention is to support the Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous people, the second-largest indigenous group in Brazil, in their emergency campaign and struggle against Covid-19. They were one of the first peoples who had contact with the Portuguese colonizers 520 years ago, and since then they have been suffering from the impact of this contact. Today they are living under precarious conditions in the Midwest region of Brazil.

Luzia Simons created the work "Stockage 200" exclusively for this campaign. All proceeds will be donated to the Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous people.


In support of the Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous people

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