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The use of sugar as a primary medium is central to the work’s conceptual weight. Unlike bronze or marble, sugar is ephemeral, organic, and volatile. It attracts insects, it melts with heat, and it hardens into brittle crusts. By coating a durable metal structure in this sticky, transient substance, Ferreira highlights the precariousness of the "perfect home." The sugar acts as a preserving agent, encasing objects in a crystalline amber, much like amber preserves prehistoric insects. However, this preservation is not eternal; it is sticky and suffocating. It suggests that the consumerist desire to accumulate and preserve "sweet" moments often results in a suffocating stagnation, where the machinery of daily life (the rack) is rendered useless by the excess of what it tries to support. joana ferreira mangalhos com acucar new
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