“I feel that the mundane has been incorporated”: a conversation with Maria Helena Bernardes

Abstract

In an interview with Eduardo Veras, artist Maria Helena Bernardes reviews different topics of her life history after the rupture represented by Vaga em Campo de Rejeito, which began in 2001 and marks her growing interest in a less expressive and more communicational dimension of the artist’s work. The interviewee emphasizes the discovery – from situations of collaborative nature – of new ways of understanding daily life and the experience of being in the world. In the conversation, Maria Helena also comments on the exercise of writing and the pleasure of building narratives.