Movies: Letícia Parente

Letícia Parente was a pioneer of video in Brazil, and In is one of her earliest video works. It depicts the artist entering a closet, suspending herself from a hanger, and closing the door. Parente used video as a political tool to protest the milita...

Letícia lies on an ironing board in front of her maid who calmly irons her mistress, clothed, with the same attention to detail as someone who irons out a flat piece of clothing. The artist is calm like an empty suit; she doesn’t move, she doesn’t co...

In Preparação I (Preparation I) Letícia Parente prepares herself to go out. In front of a bathroom mirror, she places bandages over her mouth and eyes, draws eyes and a mouth over the bandages, fixes her hair, takes her bag and leaves the room. This ...

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The artist apply herself with 4 injections. After each, she writes names for her vaccines in a internacional health control file in order to exit the country....

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The artist sows the word 'Brasil' into the sole of her foot....

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A woman close to things asks about the ways of existing. the body, the name, the house, the thickness in which the subject is inscribed and daily modeled....

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