Lampião-mermaid

ランピアォンはブラジル北東部セルタォン地帯の戦いの歴史の物議を醸す人物で、その活動は干魃や貧困、社会的格差と強く結び付いている。伝説化され、文脈によっては抑圧された者の戦いの力を象徴する。この恐るべき匪賊が海を知ったなら、暴力性が抑えられただろうという作者の空想にもとづく。この作家の多くの作品に見られるように、男性原理と女性原理の融合を通じた均衡を求めていると解せる。

Lampião is a controversial character of the history of Brazilian Northeastern hinterland fights, whose actuation is strongly associated to drought, misery, and social inequality. Transformed into myth, he symbolizes, in some contexts, the power of the oppressed people’s fight. This work talks about a view of the artist, who imagine that the violence of such feared outlaw would be attenuated if he had met the sea. In our point of view, he merges the male and female principles taking into account the search for a balance situation, present in many works of this artist.