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Lygia Pape. Tupinambá

  • Art, Contemporary art
Lygia Pape, Memória Tupinambá
© Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph © 2020 Fredrik Nilsen.Lygia Pape, Memória Tupinambá, 2000.
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Time Out says

Neo-Concrete movement founder Lygia Pape was largely known for her colorfully political geometric pieces, and though her late-career Tupinambá series may lack hard edges, it certainly has something to say. Balls of red artificial feathers covered in breasts and bloody hands channel Brazil’s indigenous populations and a particular cannibalistic ritual.

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