Panmela Castro is one of the main names in the history of pichação in Rio de Janeiro. The pichação composes codes that only intimate walkers of the urban landscape are wise to master. It is a movement unique to Brazilian cities and with a small connection to graffiti culture and street art. In the past they were used to denounce the military dictatorship, and in much of Latin America, it was appropriated by the feminist movement in its claims.
By leaving the anonymity of a message on the gray concrete of the city, the action is free of prohibitions or punishments, but when the lines are in a mirror, it becomes a process of empathy and otherness, about what you would leave for the other that suits you too.
Sometimes Panmela's mirrors are small traditional paintings, sometimes they are public art projects, and at other times, a participatory performance where passers-by place themselves as authors leaving their own messages for themselves, and for the other.
By leaving the anonymity of a message on the gray concrete of the city, the action is free of prohibitions or punishments, but when the lines are in a mirror, it becomes a process of empathy and otherness, about what you would leave for the other that suits you too.
Sometimes Panmela's mirrors are small traditional paintings, sometimes they are public art projects, and at other times, a participatory performance where passers-by place themselves as authors leaving their own messages for themselves, and for the other.
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Room of Mirrors #1 Mirrors series, 2023Participatory installation
Spray and markers on mirrored acrylic300 x 309 cm
Area: 11,05 m2
Ceiling height: 3,40 m -
African Leaderships on Copulated Mirrors, Affective Drift Dakar series, 2023Stained glass varnish on mirrors1.70 x 2.55 m
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Tread Softly, Postpone the End, Inhotim Multiples, 2023Spray on mirror70 x 50 cm
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Party Bathroom, Catharsis Box series, 2023Participatory installation
Spray and markers on mirrored acrylic over bathroom walls1,50 x 1,70 x 3 m -
I Survived, Affective Drift, 2021Cedar wood and mirror70 x 176 cm
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Room of Mirrors #2, Mirrors series, 2023Participatory Installation10 x 7,8 m
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Mrs. Antônia, Copulated Mirrors, 2023Vitral varnish on mirror50 x 32 cm
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To Flaunt is To Be Alive, Mirrors series, 2021Spray on mirror160 x 110 x 8 cm
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Power To All Forgotten Ones, Mirrors series, 2022Spray on mirror160 x 110 x 4,5 cm
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Vandal Love, Mirrors series, 2021Spray on mirrored acrylic6.22 x 6.10 m
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Pretty, Free and Crazy, Mirrors series, 2020Black or Pink Spray on mirror70 x 50 x 8 cm
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Oratory, Mirrors series, 2020Wooden statuary niche, mirror, furred shelf, embroidered velvet pillow40 x 23 x 13 cm
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Saint, Mirrors series, 2021Bronze and mirror
45 x 15 cm
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Mirror n. 1, Mirrors series, 2022Spray and markers on mirrored acrylic2 m x 6 m x 40 cm
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Scopular, Mirrors series, 202218k gold, mirror, jewelry box3 x 30 cm
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Live To Fly, Mirrors series, 2022Spray on mirror160 x 110 x 4,5 cm
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Clara Nunes, Copulated mirror series, 2022Vitral glass varnish on mirror86 x 53 x 2 cm