Lygia Pape’s Tupinambá series, debuting in North America for the first time, and an emblematic Ttéia are now on view in Los Angeles. These deeply Brazilian works illuminate Pape’s longstanding interest in her country's indigenous populations and their histories – not to be missed.
I wanted to make my ‘Manto Tupinambá’ an extremely beautiful thing, like original Tupinambá feather art, and at the same time seize the terror of death. Because both are present all the time.’—Lygia Pape