The first Englishlanguage monograph on seminal Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa born 1961 this substantial volume is also the artists most comprehensive to date. Pessoas sculptural work which often mobilizes materials like human hair leather wax and animal blood evokes issues related to human and animal bodies vacillates between beauty and abjection and forges formal connections between indigenous Brazilian traditions and international postminimal art.Surveying work from throughout Pessoas career from her beginnings in the late 1980s through to the present with selections from the artists sketchbooks and archives this volume argues for Pessoas unique contribution to Brazilian art. Including texts by international scholars Cecilia FajardoHill Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira and Alex Bacon as well as an interview with Pessoa by Liz Munsell Solange Pessoa introduces Englishlanguage readers to the artists compelling body of work from the past three decades.