Iara

Laura Lima
Iara, 2023
Raw cotton threads, natural dying (senna, seven sangrias, fennel, chamomile, horsetail, mate tea, black tea, annatto, sweet paprika, turmeric, coffee, red wine, red cabbage, beetroot, hibiscus flower, onion skins, tobacco, vinegar)
Work: 210 x 80 x 8 cm

Gigantic textured drawings made from raw cotton threads dyed with natural techniques. These drawings take time to be woven and are extracted from an imaginary of figures with complex mythologies, many times originating from brazilian folklore characters. It is the case of Iara, a mermaid entity that would seduce men by rivers and take them underwater. As the work is delicate and uses pigments of vegetable origin (more fleeting than synthetic ones), its colors are likely to fade slowly, as in a slow and imperceptible cinema. Foto: Laura Lima Studio (provisory)