Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1977

Dee Lazzerini, a multidisciplinary artist, sculpts organic bodies from polyurethane plates, representing the artist’s nanobiological studies — a recent memory of his work in biomaterials engineering.

His interest is in spatiality: far and near, above and below, at the same time sidereal and cellular. They are the stars in the galaxy and the protons and electrons in the atoms. It is the microcosm and the macrocosm and the philosophical invitation to exercise abstraction from the hermetic principle of correspondence “what is inside is like what is outside”.

The use of everyday materials such as pins and crochet suggests memories not only of the artist, but of ours, in an immediate creation of affective effect with the work. Displaced from their primary functions, the materials cover and/or cross the surfaces of these bodies, providing the outline and support for the creation of hybrid beings, which sometimes invite or refuse to encounter those who see them.