BENTO PINTO PEREIRA
Bento had a difficult schooling at a time when his dyslexia was not understood. His reading and writing experience was marked by demands, but his ability to see possibilities in objects and materials became central to his artistic life. He doesn't necessarily start with a drawing: he looks at a piece and imagines what it can become.
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2026
FAMILY OF MIGRANTS FROM THE NORTHEAST
The journey of a family through a dry and inhospitable environment mirrors the daily struggle of a dyslexic mind to overcome the "drought" of words and decipher the text. The family from the Sertão region leaves the parched land, just as the dyslexic reader begins reading in front of a desert of confusing letters. If the strong sun distorts the horizon, the letters seem to dance, float, or blend together on the page. The weight of the bundles on their backs represents the effort and mental fatigue to retain and process each sentence read. The strength of the people of Northeast Brazil, therefore, reflects the resilience of the dyslexic individual, who develops alternative and creative ways to move forward, with the arrival in the new land bringing relief, symbolizing the moment when the written code is finally deciphered and understood, until everything begins again.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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SCULPTURE
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BENTO
I can't see anything without my mind already doing this: I always see something.
I look at a bicycle freewheel, one of those with ten or twelve gears, and I see an owl.
How come there's an owl there?
I don't know. I only know that I see.
Once, I looked at six broom handles and saw a Formula 1 car. Don't ask me how.
That's how it's been my whole life. I look at things and see something else.