ANNA BIONDO
(B. 1975, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL).
CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS
IN MIAMI AND SÃO PAULO.

Men are trapped in cages and birds are flying all around singing secrets, 2023

Surrounded by the movement of transformation and experiencing that place where time does not exist. Where nothing is allowed by man’s laws, where the infinite laws integrate the permeate the soul. The non-literal representation communicates the notion of each person’s flight. The gesture, movement and symbolism represent spiritual union.

This malleable sculpture parallels the first Constantin Brancusi sculpture inspired by the Romanian legend Pasarea Maiastra, the mythical creature. The shape and symbolism of the mythical magical, the sacred bird, represents the origins of different mythologies and the understanding  that everything and everyone is interconnected forming a constellation of the collective unconscious. In Iranian mythology, Huma is a bird who flies invisibility, in Greek mythology the phoenix is connected to the sun and rebirth, in hindi legend, the peacock is Lakshmi's bird, and the eye on the peacock feather represents the unconscious.

“The shape” appear to me in a dream, I spent months searching for the shape and I finally found it inside another one of my artworks, liberated the birds so they now have the freedom, and can be installed anywhere, like that dream, being able to fly.

The softened form shows the movement of freedom and many possibilities within itself, bringing closer the spirit of nature and the forces of spiritualism.