Artists Íris Helena and Randolpho Lamonier take part in the group exhibition Poetics of Noise at the PIPA Institute Collection, opening on 6 September at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro.

Curated by Alexia Carpilovsky and supervised by Luiz Camillo Osorio, Lucrécia Vinhaes, and Carla Marins, the exhibition brings together works by artists who have marked the history of the PIPA Prize, exploring noise as a tool for memory, estrangement, and temporal layering. The pieces stitch together and mend stories, materials, and voices, inviting the viewer to reflect on what has been erased, forgotten, or never written.

Íris Helena presents Notas de Esquecimento VII, a work that engages with her research on memory, urban landscape, and instability. Born in João Pessoa and holding a PhD in Methods and Processes in Contemporary Art from the University of Brasília, the artist employs precarious and everyday materials to (re)construct narratives that traverse memory, the desire for erasure, and poetic risk, transforming ordinary materials into surfaces for aesthetic experience and critical reflection.

Randolpho Lamonier shows Canções para uma semente, a work that synthesises his multifaceted practice in textile art, drawing, photography, video, and installation. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts at UFMG, Lamonier explores the dialogue between word and image to reflect on micro and macro-politics, urbanities, dystopias, emotional relationships, and intersections between memory and fiction. His work creates fragmented universes where everyday life, affectivity, and narrative intertwine.

Admission is free, from Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays, from 12:00 to 18:00. The show runs until 16 November.