Araguari, Brazil, 1957

“I work with layers, just as a geologist works with layers. Or how an anatomist works with layers. My layers peel off to reveal, they overlap, narrating new formations. They cascade, orbit, dissipate. My work is born as fragments — disparate pieces that interpenetrate, are sewn, glued, broken, hung, tied, tied or even fixed with hairspray. I’m interested in layers beyond mere artistic technique, for me layers are like accumulated memories, how history is made, or how time is formed.

I am motivated by both needs, to deconstruct and to rebuild.

My artistic background is classic — engraving, drawing, tempera painting, but I fuse this classicism with a material experimentation through which I explore territories as vast as the universe of microscopic organisms — cell cavities, meandering tissues that change their appearance — even the musculature of the human body—Olympic torsos shown in diptychs—or even the cosmos and cosmic order.”

Elizabeth Dorazio