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				Book of Roofs by Josely Carvalho at Des Lee Gallery By Liam Otten The School of Art's Des Lee Gallery, Wildwood Press and the Jeffrey Hartz Gallery will co-sponsor The Book of Roofs, #0001: Tracaj‡, an exhibition of prints, handmade paper objects and digital media projects by Brazilian-born artist Josely Carvalho. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist from 5:30-9 p.m. Sept. 13 and remains on view through Oct. 27. Both the exhibition and the opening reception are free and open to the public. Exhibition Who: Washington University's School of Art's Des Lee Gallery What: Book of Roofs: #0001 Tracaj‡ 14, prints, handmade paper objects and digital media by Josely Carvalho Where: Des Lee Gallery, University Lofts building, 1627 Washington Ave. When: Sept. 13-Oct. 27. A reception for the artist will be held from 5:30-9 p.m. Sept. 13 Cost: Free and open to the public Hours: 4-7 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. Sundays and by appointment Sponsors: Wildwood Press, Jeffrey Hartz Gallery and the School of Art Carvalho, a 1980 graduate of the School of Architecture, is widely known for creating artists' books and silkscreen prints that address issues of identity, social justice and the intersection of personal and collective memory. In recent years, she has increasingly developed multimedia and Internet-based projects, explaining that, "I consider my work as a loose-leaf conceptual book: paintings, objects, video, book art, poetry, installations, Web works are the hybrid pages of this nonlinear chronicle." Book of Roofs, an ongoing work based on the idea of "shelter" -- or, in the artist's phrase, "that which houses the human soul" -- was inspired by a chance encounter with traditional South American construction techniques. "I was walking on an island in Bahia, Brazil, where I saw hundreds of clay roof tiles stacked on the sand," Carvalho recounts in her introduction to the project. "Observing the workers, I was mesmerized not only by the labor-intensive process of their work (firing, carrying, piling, hoisting, installing), but by the communal sense the work and the materials evoked. I saw their labor as art and transposed it to a public setting." Book of Roofs debuted in 1997 as a physical installation of 3,000 Colonial-style clay tiles; today, it continues to evolve as a Web-based project (www.book-of-roofs.net), weaving image, text and sound into resonant mediations on such "shelters" as the mother's womb, the human body and the coffin or urn that holds our final remains. Courtesy Photo Book of Roofs: #0001 Tracaj‡ 14, one in a suite of 40 photolitho-and-mixed-media prints by artist and architecture alumnus Josely Carvalho, will be on view at the Des Lee Gallery Sept. 13-Oct. 27. For the St. Louis exhibition, Carvalho and Maryanne E. Simmons, master printer of Wildwood Press, created 40 original prints that combine sculptural and architectural motifs drawn from Indian temples with elements of Carvalho's personal iconography. (Chief among these is the tracaj‡, or turtle, which the artist previously featured in her 1991 book My Body is My Country and which she has described as a metaphor for "the wandering immigrant.") The exhibition also features 300 paper-cast roof tiles and five digital prints accompanied by a video of religious ceremonies in India and Nepal, including a cremation, daily rituals in the River Ganges and a sacrifice to Kali, goddess of creation and destruction. Carvalho, who lives in New York, has exhibited at venues ranging from the Museum of Modern Art, the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia and Kenyon College, Ohio, to the Casa de Las Americas, Cuba; the Casa del Lago, Mexico City; the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; and the Museu de Arte and Museu de Arte Contemporanea, both in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Des Lee Gallery hours are 4-7 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. Sundays and by appointment. The gallery is located in the University Lofts building, 1627 Washington Ave. For more information, call 621-8537.

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