In a Word, Beauty
Fernanda Gomes, Tate Etc.
September 2013

Accepting that life has no meaning leaves me relatively unfazed. What does make sense is beauty, sentiment, art. Beauty reveals whatever equilibrium is possible in this chaos we inhabit. I need just one word to write about Mira Schendel’s œuvre, so close to my own view of things, a word that she drew with great emotion: beauty. […]