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Prole do Bebê

2000

Fiberglass and makeup

Obra Prole do bebê, 2000, de Tunga. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim
Tunga, Prole do Bebê, 2000, Fiberglass and makeup. Photo: Daniel Mansur
Obra Prole do bebê, 2000, de Tunga. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim
Tunga, performance Make Up Coincidence, a Prole do Bebê, 2002-2012. Photo: Daniela Paoliello

In Prole do Bebê (2000) each piece has a different shape. They are organic, nearly amoeboid shapes that Tunga names as ‘modrongos,’ weird beings. Such individual and independent bodies have protuberances and cavities, in an allusion to sexuality.

Made in fiberglass, the pieces are also covered in make-up, as a trace of the performance Make Up Coincidence, made for the inauguration of the gallery in 2012. In it, a naked couple did the make-up of the pieces at the same time they would apply the products to themselves.

Obra Prole do bebê, 2000, de Tunga. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim
Tunga, Prole do Bebê, 2000. Photo: Daniel Mansur
Obra Prole do bebê, 2000, de Tunga. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim
Tunga, Prole do Bebê, 2000, [detail]. Photo: Daniel Mansur

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