Glasgow’s Tramway will be the first venue in the UK to present a new piece of work by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa (b.1961 Ferros Belo Horizonte, Brazil).
One of Brazil’s most renowned sculptors, Pessoa will create a new commission for Tramway’s cavernous main gallery. This newly commissioned body of work consists of large-scale sculptural forms created from ceramics, bronze and Hebridean fleece, produced between Glasgow and Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Tramway is an international art space in the heart of Glasgow’s south side. The venue is run by Glasgow Life, the charity that leads culture and sport in the city.
The exhibition brings together constellations of organic materials, referencing landscapes, archaeology and historical narratives from both Brazil and Scotland. A series of sculptures will be realised in several clusters across the vast gallery space, inspired by diverse materials and forms ranging from seedpods, nests, plant-life, erratic boulders and Scottish bronze age standing stones, to large-scale sculptures created from raw sheep’s wool. Speaking to the colonial, agricultural, archaeological and material histories that have shaped the landscape of both Brazil and Scotland, this new body of sculptures will manifest as an ecological, visceral and sometimes otherworldly landscape unfolding across the gallery floor, creating connections that span the prehistoric past to the present ecological crisis.
Main Image: Installation View of Solange Pessoa at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Nov, 2023 – Feb, 2024 Courtesy of Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo by Markus Tretter.