In White mosaic, brides in their white dresses come together in a performance that gives continuity to the artist’s work. The pieces of a huge zipper made from marble are carried and arranged by the women themselves. They are them pieced together like a huge cogwheel visible from the sidewalk.
Sixty bride walk along a path each embracing a piece of marble. Walking together along the old downtown streets, the brides reach an area close to the São Bento monastery. There, over a big crater in the floor, they dispose of their pieces of stone so that one by one they create a circle, a garland of marble pieces that fit together in a perfect match.
It is as if each woman, each bride, placed a piece of her affection there, a piece of her hopes. United, like a puzzle that finally finds its impossible solution, these affections, these hopes, this love becomes strengthened by the force of the circle. An amorous core is created in the center of the city.
The work seems to cry out that each dream of peace embedded in the white of the dresses and of the marble becomes a torch of solidarity to reflect and penetrate the now and ever after. In this way the performance-installation transcends the limitations of art and becomes symbolic of urgent romance within a universe of everyday violence, a violence that always begins in amorous and family relationships and contaminates all types of city life situations.
May the brides’ path contaminate people with affectionate solidarity.
Katia Canton