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My name is Tatiana Blass.
I was born and live in São Paulo.
I started out by making paintings,
and through the years I worked with other mediums,
doing sculptures, installations, later videos and performances.
Many artworks I make are with microcrystalline wax,
which is the same material of the work I am presenting at the Wexner Center.
This work is with a dog made of wax with black pigment.
The dog is held with a leather belt, which is attached to the roof,
and under the dog there is a metal plate that heats up and the dog starts melting from its paws.
During the weeks [of the exhibition], the belt is brought down lower,
and the dog goes on melting more and more,
and it starts being slowed by its own material as if that was a black hole.
Besides this work, I will also present two paintings, which also have a relation with the sculpture,
and they also have dogs and human figures, which also disappear into the paint.
And the dripping marks from the paint also have a lot to do with the melting of the wax.
This series of works I call sculptures-performances,
because they react and represent their own disappearance during the exhibition.
They begin as finished works, but then they start disappearing during the period of the exhibition.
I think that Brazilian art is in a very special moment, with great artists,
and I think that Brazil is present in my work simply because I am Brazilian,
I live in this context, and have the whole Brazilian story inside of me.
But I can't speak about something that I see in regard to our nationality,
because my work doesn't have a lot to do with a broader generalization,
but is more individual and subjective.
I think that's it.