Raphaela Platow /// Sandra Cinto. Drawing into Freedom

At the beginning of her career, Sandra Cinto created installations with objects that related to a particular space and to one another. She was profoundly influenced by a pioneer of installation art in Brazil –Regina Silveira– and the remarkable way in which she integrated her works with architecture and the physical experience related to it. At the time, drawing for Cinto was merely a preparatory step toward something else–a sketch, but not a means of expression in its own right. She soon realized, however, that drawings could be the primary language of her work. They could respond to the scale of architecture and invite viewers to relate to them with their entire bodies, continuously shifting their position to absorb the work in a series of subjective perceptions and transformations.