It was from this phrase that designer Izabella Suzart started to research creative processes of artists like Abdias Nascimento and Hussain Bicar, the first being Brazilian and the second Egyptian.
Abdias and Hussain had the same objective to use art as a means of communication to value their roots and saw themselves as artists who saw meaning in life from the repetition of the essentials.
They understand themselves as defenders of form with content and mysticism as the basis for elaborating their works.
The Margem collection revisits my childhood and appreciate the margin as a mystical, simple and strong place.
The essence of this collection was to think of spirituality as an intangible concept that transcends and gives meaning to something much greater.
What is the artist's role as transmitter of cultural values and what is the cultural foundation that gives meaning to life even if we have the interdependence of all societies and cultures.
How to syncretize being both local and international at the same time?
Spirituality does not immobilize time and space, opening perspective for the future.