This page is part of the Brígida project, which received funding through the Rumos Itaú Cultural call for projects. Initially devised to organize her film output, the process give rise to a new book – soon to be launched – and this website, which gives an overview of the complete work of Brígida Baltar.
The artist’s desire to organize her tapes and films, records of her work that she kept stored in an archive, was what drove this research project, conceived and undertaken in partnership with Jocelino Pessoa. Baltar spent months in the studio set up in her house perusing the remastered files with the editor Fernanda Bastos. She also received the curators Giorgio Ronna, Luisa Duarte, and Marcio Doctors there to talk through the process.
The final result of the project was going to be a book on the cataloguing of the films. However, given the extraordinary wealth of material that came to light during the research, the publication had to be expanded to enable the concepts and techniques Baltar employed for each film to be recorded in detail. And that is where this website comes in: to share the knowledge generated throughout this whole process and constitute an official space for divulging Brígida Baltar’s work. It was a natural process to extend its content to encompass her whole body of work, given that there is no hierarchy between her actions, sculptures, films, drawings, and embroidery.
This initiative has become even more important since April 2021, when a fire in the store of Brígida Baltar’s gallery destroyed part of her work, which can now only be experienced here.
