Tunga’s “Fração de luz” on view at Almeida & Dale’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Tunga explored the symbolism and materiality of flesh in his works, in which metallic and mineral components represent body elements – steel wire is hair, plaster is bone, concrete is skin. The sculpture “Fração de luz” [Fraction of Light] (2010) is an inert, discarnate body made up of three circles of bones suspended by steel rods and braided steel wires. Referring to an uncanny being, the work carries both the ideas of genesis and death.   

“Fração de luz” is part of the selection of works by Tunga on view at Almeida & Dale’s booth F3 at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024.