Valéria Nascimento's porcelain blossoms featured in The Financial Times.
"The artist’s installations for private homes and retailers such as Cartier have a graphic simplicity to them. “I use repetition to scale up the work,” she says, seated at a desk in her studio, with boxes of handmade flower heads lining the shelves behind her, ready to be installed around the world. Her pared-back aesthetic is influenced by her early career as an architect in Brazil, where she grew up, and the influence of Modernists including the architect Oscar Niemeyer. “He had this ability to create massive concrete buildings that looked as light as petals,” she says."
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October 27, 2023