Natan Diacon-Furtado
Natan Diacon-Furtado
Natan Diacon-Furtado; Our Maps, 2020; Archival ink stamped oil exploration map; 45.75 x 40 in.
Natan Diacon-Furtado; Our Maps (detail), 2020; Archival ink stamped oil exploration map; 45.75 x 40 in.
Natan Diacon-Furtado; Our Maps (detail), 2020; Archival ink stamped oil exploration map; 45.75 x 40 in.
OUR MAPS
Handmade rubber stamps are used to create simple, yet complex patterns referencing the abstract tilework found on and within most modernist construction projects in Brazil. This pattern is hand-stamped over a 20th Century oil exploration map of the African continent, found on the side of the road by the artist.
The act of stamping onto the found map connects the artist’s childhood memories of growing up in Brasilia – the modernist capital of Brazil – and policies of exploitation and extraction, particularly the white supremacist legacy of “branqueamento,” as it relates to the perception and erasure of race in the artist’s own family.
BIO
Natan is a Brazilian and American collaborative artist and designer trained as a cultural anthropologist and architect. Their work embraces a globally southern heritage of fundamental geometries and pattern-making as visual translation devices for experiencing and exploring issues of race, identity, and community through collaboration.
They have exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Delft Architectural Biennial, Buenos Aires Biennale of Architecture, Terrain Biennial, and a solo museum exhibition at Indiana University’s Wiley House Museum, and have been a 2021 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-In-Residence, 2021 Artist-in-Residence at Montgomery College, and a 2020 PlySpace Resident Fellow.
In addition, Natan’s design work has been named one of the “World’s Greatest Places” by TIME Magazine. Natan engages ambiguity, loose-ness, and a make-do attitude to allow for deep and wide-ranging collaborations that imbue basic forms and patterns with shared meaning, crafting spaces and projects that act as community architectures and living archives.
@DFNATANDF
DIACONFURTADO.COM