are clay reliefs, (in its majority masks), where hunger is set in relief, instead of being relieved. Besides its apotropaic function (to conjure hunger) it also speaks of an aesthetics of hunger, as defined by Glauber Rocha, a mode of production based on poor means. In spite its archaic semblance, the reliefs are moulded after cardboard, fruit nets and food – the very contemporary materials that remains or are discarded in value circulation.
HR # 7 (charcoal skull) / fired and partially glazed clay and pigment / 2025
HR # 11 (piglet) / fired clay and pigment / 2025
HR # 23 (bat) / fired and partially glazed clay / 2025
HR # 25 (vampeta) / fired clay and pigment / 2025
HR # 29 (ember) / fired clay and pigment / 2025
HR # 34 (corn king) / concrete, fired clay and pigment / 2025
matheus rocha pitta 