Hunger Reliefs

are clay reliefs, (in its majority masks), where hunger, instead of being relieved is set into relief. 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. The figures, both defying and precarious, performs an apotropaic function (to conjure hunger)while also affirming an aesthetics of hunger, as defined by Glauber Rocha, a mode of production based on poor means.