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Estela Vilela is a bookbinder and book artist with a career dedicated to graphic experimentation, the study of the artist's book, and the dissemination of book culture. She was president of the Brazilian Association of Bookbinding and Restoration (Aber) and currently serves on its Advisory Board. Since 1986, she has developed projects that explore the materiality of the book and its expressive possibilities. She is the creator and coordinator of the M.A.L.A. (Morada Andarilha dos Livros de Artista) artistic residency, an initiative dedicated to creation and dialogue around the artist's book. In addition to her activities in her studio, she teaches various courses and workshops at institutions such as Sesc, Iphan, Itaú Cultural, Educativo Flip, etc.
This work speaks of recurring dreams from my childhood and the path, full of light and shadows, to my youth. I was born in a forest reserve that, even today, continues to inhabit me. I feel like a fragment of all that remains of it: the trees, the fallen branches, and the flowers that bloom and wither.
