Arthur Bispo do Rosario -- "O Artista do Fio" -- at the Caixa Cultural. Mesmerizing display of mundane objects, fabricated by the artist and wrapped, mummy-like, in gray thread collected from the uniform clothing worn by fellow mental hospital residents. The work is both meditative and distressing, each object a result of a painstaking patience and labeled in a contrasting thread as a sort of guard against oblivion or perhaps a desire for a sort of ground-zero of language, with the word stuck to the object, the signifier and signified once again inseparable.....
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