Dimensions: 55,5 x 42
The piece is part of a series with the title "The Night Doesn't Fall Asleep In Women's Eyes”, adapted from the homonymous poem by Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. The series is composed of an unprecedented body of work that stems from a research project on memory and ancestry that the artist undertook in the context of his last solo exhibition.
Through drawing and painting, Markowski creates a pictorial, narrative and intellectual space in which the female figure carries the central stage and is surrounded by a concrete iconography that uses elements taken from the universe of Brazilian fauna and flora and Yoruba culture. Ancestral masks appear in this context as attributes of a neglected collective memory. The artist’s production encompasses a process of documentation on different socio-cultural aspects of Afro-Brazilian history and the African diaspora.
