Liliane Dardot

Lilian Dardot is a Brazilian artist, graphic designer, teacher, and political activist, mostly known for her drawings in colored pencils, her works of lithography, and book illustrations. She resumes the emphasis on painting, developing research focused on plant elements of the local flora. At the same time, he works with drawing and with new exhibition spaces, creating works in situ. “Cabanos em matas de água preta”. 2019 is an installation of three glass slides with designs printed with ceramic ink. Drawings are showing people who live in Água Preta, combined with the details of the vegetation of the Atlantic Forest, an ecosystem where the ‘Cabanos’ dwelt and hid. The artist discovered signs of what occurred during the Cabana revolt from 1832 to 1836 in the Regency period where blacks escaped and freed poor whites and small landowners Indians from the villages of Jacuípe. In the Temoratas Woods, on the banks of the dark waters of the river, between the coast and the hinterland. The blades were installed in the chosen location in the Botanical Garden of Usina de Arte, in positions oriented towards the east and west of the sun. Lilian Dardot,1946, born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais where she lives and works.