Vera Chaves Barcellos, Testarte - Que Há Por Detrás? (What’s Behind?)

Venice Biennial project (Brasil), 1976. Two envelopes containing sheets featuring b/w pictures of doors, with a question printed on the bottom part. The text (in Portuguese) invites the viewer to participate in decoding the image. Includes: (1) Manila envelope printed 'Bienale di Venezia 1976, Brasile/ Vera Chaves Barcellos: Testarte. Contains 7 reproduced b/w photos, 24 x 17 cm, stapled to a printed information sheet about the artist, with text in Portuguese and English.

(2) Manila envelope printed 'Que Há Por Detrás? II, Vera Barcellos 76'. Contains identical pictures as in above envelope, only smaller, 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Includes 1 audience questionnaire sheet. (total 2) Amazing documents of the famous series by Brazilian artist Vera Chaves Barcellos (born 1938), shown at the 1976 Venice Biennale and at the 1977 São Paulo Art Biennial. Chaves Barcellos was one of the founders of the Porto Alegre based artist initiative Nervo Óptico (1976-1978) and founder of Espaço N.O (1979-1982), a women-led exhibition space which promoted alternative formats, such as mail art, performance and installation. Her work was featured in the Radical Women show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.