The landscape marks everything in Marcone Moreira’s work. Living where he does – in Marabá, a city in the southeast of the state of Pará, at the confluence of two major rivers, the Tocantins and Itacaiúnas – is his most valuable asset. His eyes are there. It is the reality of the place that defines the essential lines of his work – paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs, things. The local vocabulary gains presence in his work, however, through a formal sensibility rooted in the fundamental processes of modern and contemporary art. The most striking example: Marcone appropriates the popular visual aesthetic in readymades originating from boats, trucks, crates, Styrofoam boxes, and other objects. Nevertheless – or perhaps for this very reason – the landscape appears only as a metonymy: a piece, a remnant. Or even a fracture, understood as a fragmentary but not shapeless form....