Katie van Scherpenberg, Esperando Papai [Waiting for Daddy], 2004/2023

Katie van Scherpenberg Brazilian, b. 1940

Esperando Papai [Waiting for Daddy], 2004/2023

Series of 12 C-Type prints

Unframed: 50 x 33 cm (19 3/4 x 13 in) each
Framed: 51.3 x 34.8 cm (20 1/4 x 13 3/4 in) each
Overall dimensions: 110 x 250 cm (43 1/4 x 98 3/8 in) (variable)

Edition 1 of 3 + 2 APs

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Since the 1990s, van Scherpenberg has worked with her own body, recording her performances in video art and photography. In 2004, the artist returned to the home she had shared...

Since the 1990s, van Scherpenberg has worked with her own body, recording her performances in video art and photography. In 2004, the artist returned to the home she had shared with her father in the Amazon, by then almost completely destroyed. Her father had died some three decades earlier in 1971 on the island where they lived together. The artist performed Esperando Papai (Waiting for Daddy) at dusk on the river bank. The work manifests as a series of photographs, taken at intervals as the light of the sun fades. As the sky darkens, the artist’s lamp light gets brighter. The artist is seen sitting in the water facing out into the river until the last two images, where she walks towards the camera. In the final photograph, van Scherpenberg meets the viewer’s gaze. It is a work which is both confronting and deeply moving as a meditation on the artist’s past, her natural surroundings, and the passing of time.

Provenance

Artist's studio; Rio de Janeiro

Exhibitions

Olamapá, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019

Publications

Katie van Scherpenberg: olamapá, Vol. I, Rio de Janeiro 2020, p. 18-21, illustrated

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