Maria Laet's Intimate World at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial

Maria Laet participates in the 33rd São Paulo Biennial with an unreleased video work that takes silence as its object of reflection. Her practice, characterized by a pendular, intimate, and unhurried quality, often recovers urban erasures. In her 2013 work 'Leito,' milk poured into sidewalk cracks creates a fluid 'map,' transforming the street surface. She appropriates Haroldo de Campos's concrete poem 'Galáxias,' transforming its verses into fragments where holes correspond to the poet's pauses during reading, making the invisible visible. Laet describes maintaining an intimate silence and a state of solitude. Her work composes the present through the superimposition of atemporal realities, focusing on elements that remain open to being marked and transformed, speaking of both limit and continuity. She states her process is driven by perception, intuition, and feeling, not philosophical questions, though such interpretations are welcome. Whether in video or installation, she thematizes time, capturing fragments of an irritable contemporary world, contrasting a perceived unproductive temporality with the slow, continuous pulse of her art.