Counting Routines. Ana Amorim

1 December, 2024 - 9 March, 2025

The exhibition project Counting Routines is composed of a selection of installations of Mental Maps, which the artist calls Large Canvases, and of the tallies of the passing of time made by the Brazilian artist Ana Amorim (São Paulo, 1956) from the 1980s up to the present day. As a result of the strict daily routines, both conceptual and performative, followed by Amorim, her artistic output has acquired monumental dimensions. Brought together here is a selection of 23 works in a variety of sizes, supports and formats, presenting her consistent artistic practice over the last four decades.

The exhibition is based on two of the main activities of Ana Amorim’s life-practice: the daily routines with which she registers the drawn or embroidered Mental Maps, and her conceptual performances of Counting Seconds. These practices exemplify the commitment with which the artist applies herself to the recording of her life and to the narration – far removed from any aestheticism – of the reality around her, in the recurrences of which her career is deeply and dramatically involved.

Counting Routines. Ana Amorim.
From December 1, 2024 to March 9, 2025

Opening: December 1, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.
Opening times: From 12 until 14 and 16 until 19 Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays.
Artist: Ana Amorim
Curator: Jorge Blasco Gallardo
Technical coordination: Zaida Llamas, general coordination.
Exhibition design: Juan Manuel Villanueva
Exhibition set-up: Tate Díez, Jaime Guillén, Fernando Robles, Maximino Sánchez, Alberto Valbuena.
Maintenance: Inmaculada López
Education and Public Programs: Nadia Teixeira and Ana Andrés
Communication: Ana Andrés and Jaime Guillén
Graphic design of the exhibition at FCAYC: José Luis González Macías
Printing of FCAYC graphic material: Apel Gráfica
FCAYC Documentary Archive Audio-visual archive: Juan Baraja (photography), Ismael Aveleira (audio-visual)
Acknowledgments: Wagner Khouri
Image credits: Final Map Project (1987) Ana Amorim. Photography: Ana Pigosso.
Organized by: FCAYC