Loved writing this online feature that’s been recently published in Selvedge magazine looking at an enchanting tapestry that recently made its debut at Thomas Dane Gallery, as part of the exhibition Paisagem de Lenda (Landscape of Legend). Mumuru (por Burle Marx) (2024), by Brazilian artist Patricia Leite, made with São Paolo-based, Uruguayan tapestry maker Jorge Francisco Soto, draws on the beauty of the Brazilian landscape and stories that Leite grew up with from the Tupi-Guarani indigenous people. Also includes other select interviews commenting on links between myth, art, the Brazilian landscape and the Amazonian Lilly. Plus references shaman and indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa whose book The Falling Sky is highly recommended by Patricia Leite.
Read the feature here (full content for subscribers only).