ocupação xilográfica

The Ocupação Xilográfica, curated by Célia Barros, was an exhibition that occupied several areas of the SESC Birigui unit with works by young artists whose means of expression is woodcuts. It was an extension and expansion of the traveling exhibition Xilograficamente (see project here), previously held in some Sesi São Paulo units. ​

The 370 m² exhibition occupied internal courtyard of the unit's ground floor and the second floor, where a large matrix panel announced the exhibition room. The site specific work installed on the stairs was also part of the exhibition and followed the visitor in the transition between spaces. At the entrance, the educational space specially designed for the exhibition promoted meetings between the various visitors and workshops with the artists. ​ The starting point is the wood, it is the beginning of the process for the production of the works and also for the exhibition.

The exhibition panels were made of stained naval plywood to reveal the nature of the wood, its texture and grains, and its beautiful designs. The engraved wood matrix tablets, now converted into an exhibition panel, receives the works previously engraved by it. Its colors were chosen to dialogue with the atmosphere of the works and produce contrast with them, based on the premise that there is no such thing as neutral color, neutral is just a concept we have about color.