DIVING IN THE DRY
by Vanessa Acioly
September 21 – December 13, 2024
Opening reception: September 20, 8AM – 4PM
Arquivo Público de Alagoas
Sá e Albuquerque, s/n
Maceió, Brazil
Arquivo Público de Alagoas is pleased to announce the first solo institutional exhibition of works by Brazilian artist Vanessa Acioly. The exhibition is on view from September 20 until December 13, 2024.
Vanessa Acioly (Maceió, 1987) lives and works in Maceió. Exploring colors, textures, and shapes in her artistic practice, the artist produces works involving embroidery, painting, and sculpture. She demonstrates her material interests through experimentation with organic inputs from mineral pigments and the earth as pictorial elements, using the straws of Ouricuri, banana, and carnauba trees as her primary support. Her creative process is based on reflecting on her experiences as a woman in the world and her relationships with other women, using the peculiarity of her culture from Northeast Brazil as a substrate. Acioly uses a polychrome of earth collected in changing immersions in repetitive and meditative gestures of ancestry in her production. Her works intrinsically carry recurring lines arranged on the eccentricity and rawness of straw and the experiences learned in the Indigenous and Quilombola communities and in the craft cooperatives that the artist frequents.
For the exhibition, Acioly continues her material, visual, and conceptual research in the field of painting using natural elements to develop an abstract study of earth colors collected and produced in an artisanal manner. “Diving in the Dry” is the embryo of the works “All the Corners of the World,” 2023, “Twisted Paths from which there is no Escape,” 2023 and “Ground, Continuous Finish Line,” 2024, in which the artist prioritizes connecting crafts and manual activities to the work of abstract painting with earth colors collected in the municipality of Maceió, as well as developing experiments with straw supports and the aesthetics of forms based on memory paint or soil paint.
For images or more information regarding the exhibition, please contact Vanessa Acioly at
@vanessaaciolyart #vanessaacioly #arquivopublicodealagoas
Photos: Felipe Brasil
VANESSA ACIOLY
Hours: Monday – Saturday, 8 AM – 4 PM