Acrylic paint on canvas
157 x 140 cm
1997
Acrylic paint on canvas
135 x 120 cm
1998
Acrylic paint on canvas
128 x 137 cm
1998
Acrylic paint on canvas
138 x 130 cm
1998
Acrylic paint on canvas
158 x 120 cm
1999
Acrylic paint, tulle fabric and collage on canvas
140 x 125 cm
2001
Acrylic paint, tulle fabric and collage on canvas
130 x 115 cm
2001
Acrylic paint, tulle fabric and collage on canvas
106 x 130 cm
2002
Acrylic paint, tulle fabric and collage on canvas
175 x 130 cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
120 x 140 cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
120 x 136 cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
63 x 94 cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
108 x 170cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
170 x 139 cm
2002
Acrylic paint on canvas
125 x 138 cm
1998 - 2003
Acrylic paint on canvas
125 x 150 cm
2003
Acrylic paint on canvas
125 x 138 cm
2003
Acrylic paint on canvas
111 x 135 cm
2003
Acrylic paint on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2004
Acrylic paint on canvas
115 x 135 cm
2006
Acrylic paint on canvas
180 x 200 cm
2006
Acrylic paint on canvas
97 x 148 cm
2009
Acrylic paint on canvas
145 x 95 cm
2009
BECAUSE TODAY IS SATURDAY
The buzzing nightlife and highly frequented bars in Vila Buarque’s neighbourhood in São Paulo were always catching Ilka Lemos’ attention. When her studio moved to Canuto do Val street in the late 1990’s, she used to lean out the window and fantasize about the lives that intertwined and existed there. The excessiveness of colours, sexuality at the height of its intensity, the nightly euphoria and the people who “lived in poetry” nurtured Ilka’s imagination and production.
Surrounded by the words of Ariano Suassuna, Machado de Assis, Manoel de Barros, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cora Coralina, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Vinicius de Moraes, the series “Because Today is Saturday” exalts the autonomy of the sixth day of the week, as the epitome of freedom of existence.
1997 - 2009