page_title: Gretta Sarfaty
section_title: Evocative Recollections
hierarchical_section_title: Gretta Sarfaty / Artistic career / Brazil and Europe / Evocative Recollections
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting by Gretta Sarfaty Marchant, 1981
context_page_description: Gretta Alegre Sarfaty also known as Gretta Grzywacz and Greta Sarfaty Marchant, is a painter, photographer and multimedia artist who earned international acclaim in the 1970s, from her artistic works related to Body art and Feminism. Born in Greece, she moved with her family to São Paulo in 1954. From 1976 she lives and works in London, São Paulo and New York. Alongside her art she was the founder of the project-led space, Sartorial Contemporary Art and since 2010 has been running a family trust the Alegre Sarfaty Collection.
  Gretta exhibited her work at institutions such as Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Instituto Moreira Salles, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Museo MACRO Asilo, Palazzo dei Diamanti di Ferrara, Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Vera Chaves Barcellos, Centre Georges Pompidou, Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, New York University, among others.
context_section_description: In 1979 she performed Evocative Recollections (performance with catalogue) in Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, as well as in Palazzo dei Diamanti di Ferrara, Italy. This performance was then shown in different locations in Belgium (Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antewerp), Brazil and Italy. Under the same title, Evocative Recollections, Marchant continued the topic of female body and women's liberation in the series of photos (1980–1981). In an essay published for Marchant's solo exhibition at the Centro Culturale La Filanda (Verano Italy) Gillo Dorfles wrote about this series:
  Sure: such pictures will not be the same with another artist, with another option, however, even considered under a point of view of photographic document, Gretta's corporeal options reach an unusual efficacy. We are in front of a little common combination, between the creative activity of an artist who knows how to enjoy the expressive dynamic and plastic possibilities of her body and the realisation of a photographic documentation which remains autonomous as well as in its technical as in its aesthetic values.
caption: Gretta Sarfaty, 1981. Evocative Recollections XVII. Acrylic on canvas and lace.
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