Frida Baranek

Frida Baranek has a background in Architecture and Industrial Design. Since the beginning of her career, the relationship the artist has established with the materials she uses in her works has been to challenge her resistance to achieve her metamorphosis: to build with and against herself. “Unclassified”, the sculpture approaches nature as a forest of industrial debris with its strength, fragility and uncertainty. It was created in the USA for the exhibition “The Latin American Artists of the 20th Century” at MOMA in NY. The piece is made of industrial waste stainless steel, which supports and interacts with aircraft parts, leftovers from the American military industry. At the time, there was a lot of talk about the excess that existed in the American military industry. The artist asked the US State Department for permission and provided these airplane parts to be used in the work. Frida Baranek, 1961, born in Rio de Janeiro, works and lives between Rio, Brazil and Lisbon, Portugal.