1st Usiminas Visual Arts Prize
Hideo Kobayashi Gallery
Usiminas Cultural Center – Ipatinga, Minas Gerais
2006

Rosane Dias’s paintings address the indecision of the feminine, always divided between being and becoming. Her figures, drawn from magazine pages, mimic what they themselves seem to offer and become lost as they attempt to disentangle themselves from the webs of leaves, branches, and flowers that envelop them. They cannot fully become either figure or pattern; instead, they inhabit this space of planarity imprinted on the canvas—a space whose depth seems to identify them and render them equivalent to ornament.

Patterns, consumption, transformation. Like a play on words, or on ideas, Rosane’s women/flowerings plunge into their own desire—or perhaps its absence—consumed by the vertigo of exuberant blossoms that proliferate indifferent to human existence.

A melancholic springtime of an artificial paradise.

Text | Maria Angelica Melendi and Paulo Schmidt