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Panacea Phantastica

2003 – 2008

Screen print on tile 40 x 202 x 202 cm

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Artwork Panacea Phantastica, 2003-08, by Adriana Varejão, Inhotim Contemporary Art Collection
Adriana Varejao, Panacea Phantastica, 2003-08, (aerial view) . Photo: Eduardo Eckenfels
Artwork Panacea Phantastica, 2004-08, by Adriana Varejão, Inhotim Contemporary Art Collection
Adriana Varejao, Panacea Phantastica, 2004-08. Photo: Eduardo Eckenfels

Panacea Phantastica (2003-2008) brings together tiles depicting 50 types of hallucinogenic plants from various parts of the world, in a kind of botanical catalog. The work was originally conceived as a multiple, made in a limited edition, which allows for different applications, as does the raw material itself, the tile.

Therefore, it can be adapted to architecture, as in the Inhotim Institute, where it covers a bench at the entrance to the Gallery. On one of the tiles, a text suggests the relationship between the hallucinogenic effects of plants and the consequent change in the perception of what is around us, effects that can also be provoked by art. 

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