Iole de Freitas

Iole de Freitas immediately absorbs the transformative urgency of the environment to which she reacts in her films, Photographs, performances, and sculptures. For this ex-dancer (during 25 years), all her creations are about movement, enlarging the area of the body, speaking of light and shadow, lightness and weight. “O Peso de Cada Um”, 2015 (The weight of each one): sculpture in stainless-steel sheet, was part of the MAM exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 2015. Despite the specificities of the material, however, some sculptures have been suspended in the air (like the one which is presented today on the ground at Usina de Arte), evolving in space like an imponderable aerial dance, opposing the idea of ​​lightness and movement to their original weight with a tenuous line between the gestural and the geometric, or between expressiveness and formal precision. Between the cloudy mirroring on one side of the plate and the concrete opacity on the other, the very materiality of this steel sheet is outlined as a simultaneously rigid and fluid body, which at times absorbs and reflects the exterior, at times asserts itself as a radical obstacle to the eye. The work of Iole de Freitas implies, at the same time, line and volume, body and membrane, tension and distension, wall, and air. Her sculptures seem to want to constantly go beyond their perimeter, go further, leave their borders, and evolve towards other spaces, dialoguing with the architecture and the landscape. Today at the Usina Iole also loves the way her sculpture dialogue with the other of the collection. Iole de Freitas (1945) born in Belo Horizonte, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro