Jewish Museum of São Paulo prepares Gretta Sarfaty retrospective
Show brings together 60 works from the artist's five decades, including photographs, videos, performances and paintings, and highlights transparency in her work.
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The Jewish Museum of São Paulo opens a major retrospective of artist Gretta Sarfaty next week, according to a Folha de S.Paulo column from November 2. The exhibition brings together 60 works produced over five decades, at the museum's space in downtown São Paulo.
The selection includes photographs, performance documentation, videos and paintings. The curator is Patricia Wagner, who intends to give more prominence to the question of transparency, present in works that use veils, lace and mirrors.
According to the column, the artist places the woman's body, often her own, at the limit of the visible. The investigation deals with presence in trance, with the metamorphosis that leads from the idealized muse on a pedestal to the grotesque caged monster.
One of the highlights is the series of self-portraits created as performance before the mirror and the camera, in which Gretta's beautiful and distorted face led critics to describe her transformation as a passage "from grace to madness."
The column describes the artist as unique and a first-rate feminist and highlights her ability to translate these ideas into photography and painting, in a body of work described as radical.