Célia Machado

Endless White Tales (2014/21)

About Célia Machado

This series of works emerges as a manifesto that is as intimate as it is political, where the autobiographical elements are fully accepted and worked on in an intensely feminine discourse sprinkled with subtle ironies, but this time entangled in the plot of "fairy tales" reinvented and "lived" in the feminine.

The artist plays with the (re)interpretation of children's stories, extending them to other landscapes, creating a world of her own, where anonymous characters appear, who seem to have come out of some story, but we are not sure which one and which take us to magical and dreamlike places. The artist's work inspired by “old wives' tales” is full of symbologies and scraps of memories, of double readings and multiple interpretations.

In this set of works, we can decipher this continuity in the way of combining personal history with different histories, combining individual and universal traits. This series has as its main character the figure of her grandmother, with more than a century of existence and represents a phase of life in which peace has already been achieved with a lot of things, where there is a reconciliation with the past, unlike other periods of life, such as in adolescence and early adulthood, where everything is felt in such a passionated way.

Each picture is a contemporary little tale, a visit to our (and the artist) inner labyrinths…

Endless White Tales

Title:“The teller of fables” - Mixed Media - 150cmx150cm
Title: “The Magical Storyteller” - Mixed Media - 150 cmx150 cm
Title: “Tales and memories - an inner map” - Mixed Media|Installation - Variable measures
Tryptic installation _ Title - “The princess and the beans under the mattresses” - Mixed Media - Triptych: 160 cm x240cm - Installation with a chair/sculpture | Variable Measures
Title: “The Little big Mermaid” - Mixed Media - 150 cm x 150 cm
Title: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is the fairest of all?” - Mixed Media
- 150 cm x 150 cm
Title: “The blue-footed keeper” Diptych - Mixed Media 120 cm x 200 cm
Title: “00:00 - A-Li-Ce & The No Time” - Mixed Media - 150 cm x 150 cm
Title: “Cinderella Stories” - Mixed Media - 150 cm x 150 cm
Title: “Cinderella Stories in comics” - 6 boxes 35 cm x 29 cm
Title: “In Cinderella shoes” - Mixed Media Sculpture/Installation | Variable Measures
Title: “Can I send you my wishes with a tzuru?” - Mixed Media - 160 cm x 280 cm
+ instalação cadeiras _ Title - “My grandmother's lap” - Mixed Media Installation
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