At first glance it may not seem so, but what Tamirys Araujo presents is a painting exhibition. The works we see continue the investigation of pictorial space that the Rio de Janeiro artist, selected for the second edition of the Claraboia Program, has been carrying out since 2011. The largest of these is installed on the approximately 13-meter-long wall of the exhibition space. As a starting point, Tamirys appropriates her old paintings and observational drawings. The figurative forms that were previously there representing part of the world disappear as she cuts the surface and applies new layers of paint not only to what would be the front of the paper, but also to the back. The recognizable images are now color-things: their colors, which were previously linked to the forms that the artist tried to represent (people, things, landscapes), now appear as autonomous forms, which move from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional plane, as they are cut, folded, twisted.

The practice of painting is also the theme of the other two works. Made from sheets of tissue paper, they deal with historical principles of the medium, such as layered construction, the logic of composition and overlapping, as well as an interest in light and transparency. In one of them, the sheets take on a body in the form of St. John's Day balloons (reaffirming the artist's interest in popular stories and customs), which appear as a large cloud suspended in space. In another, Tamirys creates new shapes and colors from the overlapping of sheets, which already originally have different patterns conceived from the repetition of geometric shapes and which gain varied configurations from the alteration of their colors. The result is a large plane, which, as in the other works, are bodies like ours in space. In Tamirys Araújo's research, the wall is no longer the only place for painting.

*This text was written on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Nationality of Objects'.