Work

Preaching

2017

About the work

In Pregação, a copy of The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich has its interior occupied by oxidized nails. Recognized as one of the most widely distributed art history books in the world, the volume has become a kind of gateway for generations of readers, students, and artists. Precisely for this reason, it appears here not merely as a book, but as a symbol of a form of transmission: a broad, pedagogical, and apparently universal narrative about what the West consolidated as art history.