Bienal de Pontevedra

This installation by Sandra Cinto is made up of a bookshelf and modular paintings. The piece includes a wooden piece of furniture designed by the artist, containing symbolic objects, such as wooden books, broken porcelain pieces and autobiographical photographs. These elements invite us to reflect on the process of personal and collective reconstruction, using the cracks visible in the broken porcelain pieces as a symbol of memory and renewal. Through the books, which represent both ancestry and knowledge, Cinto highlights the importance of education in a social context marked by high illiteracy rates, as happens in Brazil. In this installation, the bridges drawn by the artist create an oneiric landscape but, at the same time, stand as a political act of resistance against the current increasing trend of building walls, by appealing to a world without borders, which transcends the story and connects with the universal emotions of affection, memory and transformation. Cinto invites us to think about memory as an act of reconstruction and about the value of knowledge, humanism and the need to break down the barriers that separate us as individuals and as a society.