Ernesto Neto

Brazilian, born 1964

“All around me [on the beach in Rio] people are playing, talking, having a beer. This is the kind of environment I want to create in museums and galleries: a place where people have a sensorial relation with their environment and where they can interact socially.”1 

 

“I like to work with some material and action that would be more typical for women.  I love this idea of the continuity between men and women—in the moral sense, but also in the psycho-topological sense, female and male is just negative and positive, it’s like casting a sculpture, we have the model and the mold, so I’m very much interested in this ambiguity.”2

 

1,2Jessica Morgon, “Conversation in Buenos Aires,” La Lengua de Ernesto [Ernesto’s Tongue]: Obras [Works] 1986 – 2011, Monterrey, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey and Faena Arts Center, 2011: 47.
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