Folar de Páscoa
Easter bread
Visual Artist | Michael De Brito
Exhibition | Order and Chaos
Curators | Eduarda Oliveira and Elizabeth Casqueiro
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The Work
This work is a cast of Folar de Páscoa, a traditional Portuguese Easter bread historically prepared by the artist’s grandmother. By translating the ephemeral qualities of food into a static, durable material, the piece engages with themes of cultural transmission, domestic labor, and material memory.
The embedded eggs and tactile surface reference ritual and repetition, while the plaster’s permanence underscores the tension between preservation and loss. Folar de Páscoa da Avó functions as both personal archive and sculptural artifact, bridging the intimate and the collective through form.
The Artist
Michael De Brito is a US-based Portuguese contemporary realist painter whose work reveals the profound nuances of culture, identity, memory, and heritage through intimate domestic scenes. Educated at Parsons School of Design and the New York Academy of Art, his work has been exhibited in the US. De Brito is the recipient of many prestigious awards.
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