Ngram Series, 2024
Acrylic, latex and enamel on canvas.
40x50cm.

Data visualisation paintings that transform the frequency of words found in books (in the 20th century), mapped by Google Ngram Viewer, into graphic mountains that unfold into earth-transforming critical short contemporary narratives.

Each word is assigned a colour, the first word is the first graphic line, and so on. Always from left to right and from bottom to top. In a Cartesian plan, the X-axis starts at the year of 1920 and ends in 2020, while the Y-axis is the percentage of occurrence of the words that named the work.

Graphic used for the paiting “rain, heat, death”, seen above.

soul, capital, industry

hot, earth, end

ritual, spirit, money

dark, self, side

mineral, dark, water

smart, die, light

rain, heat, death and hot, earth, end at the solo show Calorcito, at Galeria Lume, in São Paulo, Brazil.