Tradigital art series #1 was influenced by the great photojournalism masters and their humanity, by the Film Noir directors with their gloomy grays and blacks and whites, with their dark and inhumane side of human nature, emphasizing the brutal, unhealthy, shadowy and dark side of the human experience; and by Cordel literature: the popular and inexpensively printed booklets containing short stories, poems and songs, which are produced and sold by street vendors mainly in the Northeast of Brazil, where the artist’s mother is from…

They came from the papel volante tradition of Portugal and are usually produced in black and white and illustrated with woodcuts. The cordéis talk about popular day-to-day life concerns and offer a direct insight of the true living conditions of the population and the rituals, superstitions and behaviors adopted in order to cope with life’s trials and tribulations.

Tradigital art series #1 – original pencil on paper drawings, worked digitally and printed as archival quality fine art prints on Hahnemuhle smooth white 100% Rag based paper paper with pigment inks, signed in limited edition of 25.

‘Brazil-born artist P Gurgel-Segrillo’s early years during a dictatorial regime, and its ambience of anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion; then growing up in Rio de Janeiro’s extremely violent society, where human rights violations are commonplace, where wealth and poverty, ethics and violence are constantly intertwining; and later as a migrant in the US and the UK: all impacted deeply her work.

Her interests lie on figurative explorations on freedom, cross-cultural identity, womanhood and empowerment. Oppression, repression, abandonment, loneliness, neglect, desertion, despair and other squatters in the dark corners of the human soul, permeate her original pencil drawings which may be unsettling, disturbing even, but most importantly their ‘message’ is recognizably human. They offer to provoke, inspire and prompt reflection on our communality as one human race.’

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