Cultured magazine interviews Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa about her new exhibition "Catch the sun with your hand" at the Aspen Art Museum, on view through October 26. The conversation explores parallels between Aspen's mining history and her home region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, her use of organic materials like blood and hair, her stone collection, and the sense of incompleteness in her process-based work. The exhibition features carved soapstone sculptures on the museum's roof and works inside that engage with crystals and silver.
The article matters because it highlights how a major Brazilian artist translates her deep connection to landscape and mining into a site-specific dialogue with the American West. Pessoa's practice, rooted in the telluric relationship between body and earth, offers a poignant meditation on environmental destruction and material memory, resonating with contemporary conversations about extraction, ecology, and the cycles of life and death.