ETIOS ART PRIZE 2019

Contemporary Art Museum of Sorocaba and Toyota Brasil

E²lpis’tios is a project elaborated based on the relation of my work with the Japanese Traditional Art, that I have been developing throughout my career as visual artist. Etios was envisioned as a poetic box: a box of hopes (Elpis in Greek means the hope that Pandora manages to preserve with herself), a traditional Japanese calligraphic box – suzuribako -, a playful box with words that tickle the tongue, and a secret box made of memories in which I transcribe a poem of Fernando Pessoa: Fortunate Islands