Industrial stainless steel and aircraft parts
Variable dimensions
Originally created in the United States for the exhibition Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century at MoMA in New York, Unclassified brings together stainless steel scrap and discarded components from the American military aircraft industry, turning technological waste into a structure with an organic and unpredictable appearance. Like a forest made of metal remains, the work suggests that the boundaries between the artificial and the natural are less stable than they seem, pointing to the impermanence and reinvention of matter.
Frida Baranek
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961
Lives and works in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro
At Usina de Arte: Unclassified (1992)
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, she moves between Portugal and Brazil. Trained in architecture and industrial design, she has built a body of work marked by the transformation of raw materials and discarded parts into structures that express resistance, instability and metamorphosis.
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