11/09/2026
A Galeria Alice Floriano irá participar mais uma vez do Jewellery Room da 3°Lisbon Jewellery Biennial ! Apresentaremos trabalhos inéditos de diversos artistas representados por nós, e iniciamos com Maria Ignacia Walker ✨️.
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SMALL MANIFESTATIONS
HAIR MANIFESTO
STATEMENT
Maria Ignacia Walker draws upon the technique of Mourning Jewelry to create
a series of works that, through hair —both her own and that of others—,
successively prolong and intertwine loss, death, trauma, and the spell. This
interweaving is not metaphorical: it is knotted, preserved in keratin, and
solidified in porcelain, gold, and silver. It is enduring, much like the visual shock
produced by the works as a whole.
In this particular series, SMALL MANIFESTATIONS, Walker moves away from
the anthropocentric. By bringing other realms into coexistence with hair, the
non-human, the animal, and the inverted take on the leading role. It is as if the
artist allows us to glimpse a second nature, one that is visible only for a few
seconds at night. This realm of two-headed creatures, eyes, shadows, and
barely recognizable figures, yet understood through an atavistic language, is
fixed in hair, pearls, and silver, like a photograph that provides evidence of the
existence of other beings.
What she proposes is a game beyond the city, an incursion into the forest as
the only method of finding, within extraordinary beings, an answer to horror.
This series is a journey in which the artist exposes us to objects found in other
realities that escape the ordinary: they are the future of survival and pain.
text: Nicolás Lange / dramaturge - writer - art curated